July 2007
Prism News Bulletin - Organics can Feed the World & NZ National Organics Conference
Organics Bulletin July 2007 [42:09m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download Organics can feed the world [13:04m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download Interview with Retired Editor of Organic NZ [17:44m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download NZ National Organics Conference [11:30m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | DownloadTHIS PRISM WEBCAST NEWS BULLETIN COVERS:
How organics can feed the world and the research that has been done to back this claim up.
An interview with the recently retired editor of ORGANIC NZ Allan Baddock on his time at the magazine and the state of organics in NZ at the moment.
Lastly an interview with Holger Kahl [...]
UK Snack attack on kid’s health – time for vending machines to shape up
Hospitals and sports centres in the UK need to shape up and start offering healthier choices according to a Soil Association investigation that exposes the shockingly bad food on offer at many of these supposed beacons of health.
The Soil Association report, ‘Not What the Doctor Ordered’[1], sponsored by food company Organix [2], found that vending [...]
UK: Extended Pre-charge Detention Violates Rights
The UK government’s proposals to extend from
28 days to almost two months the time suspects can be detained without
charge will violate the right to liberty, Human Rights Watch said today. It
is also likely to be deeply counterproductive in the fight against
terrorism.
“Locking up suspects without charge for months at a time denies the basic
right to liberty,” [...]
US Illegal Immigration & Prosperity Partnership or Un-Democratic Union of North America
Illegal immigrants and their special interest groups got a helping hand on Thursday from U.S. District Court JudgeJames Munley, a Clinton appointee, who ruled unconstitutional two Hazleton, Pennsylvania, laws designed to crack down on illegal immigration.
The judge issued a permanent injunction preventing the City of Hazleton from enforcing the Illega l Immigration Relief Act and [...]
Study: Organic Dairy and Meat Improves Quality of Mothers’ Breast Milk
CORNUCOPIA, WI: A new study, published in the British Journal of Nutrition, showed that organic dairy and meat products in a mother’s diet positively affect the nutritional quality of her breast milk-markedly increasing beneficial fatty acids.
Specifically, a diet in which 90% or more of dairy and meat products are organic is correlated with measurably higher [...]
Windows Vista don’t buy it!
Windows Vista includes an array of “features” that you don’t want. These features will make your computer less reliable and less secure. They’ll make your computer less stable and run slower. They will cause technical support problems. They may even require you to upgrade some of your peripheral hardware and existing software. And these features [...]
Help PHR Stop Torture by US Personnel
As you may know, PHR has documented the systematic use of counter-resistance techniques in interrogations since 2003. These brutal tactics were initially developed to train US forces to withstand severe abuse by enemies who do not observe the Geneva Conventions. Last week I wrote to you about the Vanity Fair article, “Rorschach and Awe,” which [...]
12 Ways to Shop Fair Trade
Good news! The Fair Trade marketplace is broader and more vibrant than ever before. That’s the lesson our editors learned while putting together our latest Guide to Fair Trade which makes its debut as a 24-page online PDF (at right).
FREE Fair Trade Guide
Download our Fair Trade guide to find out the latest on the expanding [...]
Reflections on Repro-Genetics: Liberals and Progressives Weigh In
Several liberal and progressive commentators have weighed in recently on emerging reproductive and genetic technologies. The authors differ about where and how to draw lines about troubling applications of these technologies, but they agree that regulation and oversight are necessary, and that we should begin working now to craft them.
New York Times columnist Nicholas [...]
Live Earth: a short tragedie
You’ve read the official reports of Live Earth. Now read what it was really like to be there, in the form of a Greek tragedy. All speech was actually overhead at the concert…
‘Live Earth’ or ‘Song for the Goat’*
A short tragedie
Characters:
Performers – Played by themselves
Celebrities – Played by themselves
Chorus – Voices of Live Earth attendees
The [...]
The global forest-climate swindle
Sydney, Australia - This week in Sydney, the federal government hosted a high-level meeting on forests and climate. While Greenpeace welcomes the government talking about serious responses to climate change and global deforestation, the proposed policies are unlikely to make a serious contribution to combating climate change.
The policy centrepiece of the meeting has been the [...]
RESPONSIBLITY FOR GE CLEAN UPS WOULD LAND ON LOCAL GOVERNMENT AND LOCAL LAND OWNERS
Central Government has recently confirmed that responsibility and costs fall onto local government and local land owners if genetically engineered crops contaminate natural crops or the environment and have to be cleaned up.
A letter from the Minister for the Environment indicates that when or if contamination occurs it will be the person affected by the [...]
Citizens March to ReEnergize US - Sierra Club
With awareness of global warming at an all-time high and the conversation shifting to demand for immediate action, hundreds of citizens will join students from around the country in the multi-day Marches to ReEnergizeUS across New Hampshire August 1-5 and Iowa August 2-5 (full schedules below). The marches are uniting young people, faith communities, local [...]
Transgenic Plum Gets USDA Non-regulated Status Based on False Claims of Safety
USDA deregulates its own transgenic plum despite overwhelming public objection
The United States Department of Agriculture Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (USDA/APHIS) has recently granted non-regulatory status to a transgenic plum resistant to plum poxvirus [1] after receiving 1 725 comments from state farm bureaus, organic growers, growers associations, consumer groups, agriculture support industries, academic [...]
US Factory Farms Don’t Deserve US Government Dollars!
Right now, the House of Representatives is debating the Farm Bill, and the final list of amendments is finally out. One amendment being considered would lift the cap on payments to large farms for the Environmental Quality Incentives Program.
EQIP is a conservation program run by the USDA that gives grants to farms to improve their [...]
Saudi Arabia: Hold Religious Police Accountable for Killing
(New York, July 25, 2007) - Saudi authorities should hold religious police
accountable for their fatal beating of a 28-year-old man in Riyadh on May
23, 2007, Human Rights Watch said today.
Despite eyewitness testimony that four religious police officers fatally
beat Salman al-Huraisi, criminal investigators are charging only one
volunteer officer in the incident. Meanwhile, Saudi officials have
attempted to [...]
Freedom of Speech preserved: Save Happy Valley Coalition free to publish with own logo
The Save Happy Valley Coalition is about to re-launch the Environment Report on their website with a slightly altered front page, following the interim court proceedings brought by Solid Energy against Frances Mountier, over the publication of the 2006 mock Environment Report.
Justice Chisholm ordered the removal of the word “Solid Energy” and the coal miner’s [...]
Zimbabwe: Women at the forefront of challenging government policy face increasing repression
Zimbabwean women are suffering increasing repression as they mobilize to confront the government in the face of a spiralling economic and social rights crisis in Zimbabwe, according to a new report released today by Amnesty International.
In the report, the organization released the findings of a three-week research mission during which Amnesty International’s delegates interviewed scores [...]
The Heartbeat of Health
You can tell a person’s health from the way the heart beats, it is the complex rhythm of the Quantum Jazz of life, and mathematical physicists are learning how to decipher it. Dr. Mae-Wan Ho
Complex music of the healthy heart
As regular as heartbeat, right? Not exactly, scientists with a physical bent and penchant for [...]
Mexico: Probe Charges of Police Brutality in Oaxaca
(Washington, DC, July 24, 2007) - The governor of the Mexican state of
Oaxaca should ensure that officials conduct a thorough and impartial
investigation into allegations of excessive use of force and arbitrary arrests
by police following a July 16 confrontation with protestors, Human Rights
Watch said today.
On Monday, July 16, a protest march by members and sympathizers of [...]
Report: George W. Bush’s Grandfather Plotted Fascist Coup to Overthrow America
New investigation sheds light on clique of powerbrokers, including Prescott Bush, who sought to overthrow U.S. government and implement Hitlerian policies Prison Planet | July 24, 2007
Paul Joseph WatsonA BBC Radio 4 investigation sheds new light on a major subject that has received little historical attention, the conspiracy on behalf of a group of influential [...]
Afghanistan: Britain is protecting the biggest heroin crop of all time
This week the 64th British soldier to die in Afghanistan, Corporal Mike Gilyeat, was buried. All the right things were said about this brave soldier, just as, on current trends, they will be said about one or more of his colleagues who follow him next week.
The alarming escalation of the casualty rate among British soldiers [...]
Rush to Corn Ethanol Is No Farm or Fuel Solution
Washington, DC - The future of biofuels is not in corn, says a new report released today by Food & Water Watch, the Network for New Energy Choices, and the Vermont Law School Institute for Energy and the Environment. The corn ethanol refinery industry, the beneficiary of new renewable fuel targets in the proposed energy [...]
It is time for money to grow on trees
World Conservation Union calls for a greater appreciation of the role of forests in combating
climate change
The fight against deforestation should be rewarded with financial incentives.
That was the message from a meeting organised by the World Conservation Union (IUCN), the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the Convention on Biological Diversity on July 11 in Paris.
Encouraging [...]
WATER TABLES FALLING AND RIVERS RUNNING DRY
As the world’s demand for water has tripled over the last half-century and as the demand for hydroelectric power has grown even faster, dams and diversions of river water have drained many rivers dry. As water tables fall, the springs that feed rivers go dry, reducing river flows.
Scores of countries are overpumping aquifers as they [...]
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