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Dave Bautista thrilled to put mind, muscle into 'Galaxy' guardian Drax
WWE star-turned-actor plays flawed superhero in latest Marvel
Never mind the Transformers: There's definitely more than meets the eye with the pale-green, tattoo-covered strongman Drax the Destroyer in the new Marvel superhero action adventure "Guardians of the Galaxy" -- and the star who plays him, Dave Bautista, couldn't be any more thrilled over complexities of the time-honored comic book character.
Bautista, who made his mark in the past 15 years in the WWE and MMA, told me in a recent interview that he loves doing movies and being given the opportunity to play a flawed, emotional character who walks the fine line between bad and good. After all, Bautista noted, playing such a dynamic role is something few actors get an opportunity to do.
"That was cool thing, giving not only Drax, but all of the Guardians range. It just makes the characters that much more interesting. It was really cool to see that story because, really, at the beginning, they were all A-holes," Bautista said, laughing. "They're a bunch of misfits and definitely not Boy Scouts. But I think that's what makes them easy to relate to. They've all got baggage and chips on their shoulders. They don't even like each other, but at one point they all bind together for a greater cause other than focus on their own problems and issues with one another."
In "Guardians of the Galaxy" opening in theaters nationwide Friday in 2D and 3D, Bautista embodies Drax, a muscle-bound space warrior hell-bent on exacting revenge on Ronan the Accuser (Lee Pace), a powerful, ruthless space villain who killed his wife and child.
Eloquent and sincere, yet sometimes maniacal and menacing, Drax, thankfully, is in good company. Deeply flawed like his fellow "Galaxy" outlaws -- Peter Quill/Star-Lord (Chris Pratt), Gamora (Zoe Saldana), Rocket Raccoon (Bradley Cooper) and Groot (Vin Diesel) -- Drax is also willing to sacrifice himself for the greater good and willing to do whatever it takes to save the lives of billions of people if a mysterious orb they're trying to prevent from falling into the wrong hands.
The interesting thing about playing Drax for Bautista is that in real life, the actor says he's much like the character in terms of how he's perceived. Feelings are feelings, no matter what body possesses them, he said, and the fact that Drax is from another world is almost irrelevant.
"That emotion is what gives Drax his soul. He's not just a one-note strong warrior," Bautista explained. "When I compare him to me, it's like this: When you look at him you think one thing, but when you talk with him, you think another. A lot of times people want to slap a label on you. When you're with something like the WWE, they perceive you a different way, even though it's not true to who I am."
Of course, Drax's outer appearance is quite a bit more jarring, Bautista admitted.
"When you look at him, he's just scary," Bautista said, laughing. "He's scary, menacing and intimidating. But when you get to know his story, you learn that it all stems from the loss of his family. He really is heartbroken and not just out for revenge for the hell of it. He's really doesn't have anywhere else to channel that pain. "
Since the history of Drax's character in the Marvel comic book world dates back more than 40 years, Bautista said he had also had to weather the perception of diehard fans and their criticisms as the project was starting to come together. And while it appears the fan base has fully accepted him now, Bautista, 45, says that wasn't the case at first.
"There was a bit of backlash not only when it was announced that I had the role, but even before, when word got out that I was in the running for it," Bautista recalled. "When I was in the audition process, a lot of comic book fans who were not happy. They wanted a very serious, established actor playing their beloved Drax. Don't get me wrong. I wanted their approval. It means something to me. I'm a fanboy the same way they are. I want them to be proud and think that I did Drax justice."
These days, Bautista continues to enjoy the fun byproducts of being associated with the character, including the ultimate fanboy boy honor -- being turned into an action figure.
Of course, the burning question is, since Bautista has already had WWE action figures produced in his likeness, will there be an ultimate showdown between one of those and his new Hasbro 6-inch figure of Drax? And if so, which figure has the upper hand?
"I have to go with Drax," Bautista said with a laugh. "At the end of the day he's a superhero ? a knife-wielding superhero."
And the way it looks of things, there's bound to be more action figures of Bautista as Drax, especially considering the fact that in the film's end credits, it's announced that the "Guardians of the Galaxy" will return. Bautista said he's looking forward to playing the Drax once again, and if he gets his druthers, the Guardians will be seen even more in an extended sort of capacity.
"Marvel has so much material to work with, and so many interesting characters, superheroes and stories that a lot of times intertwine," Bautista observed. "Speaking just as a fanboy, I hope all these stories start intertwining. I'm looking forward to the sequel to see what happens to these characters from here. We're all speculating, but I think everybody wants to get a bigger look at ('Guardians' villain) Thanos and see what he's about. It's cool, man. It's fun."
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Honoré Fabri
Born: 8 April 1608 in Le Grand Abergement, Ain, France
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Honoré Fabri's name sometime appears with the spelling Fabry, and sometimes in the Latin form Honoratus Fabrius. The first thing we must discuss is his date and place of his birth, since there appears to be considerable disagreement on this among historians. In [9] Lukens provides documents to support the date of Fabri's birth as 8 April 1608 and also the fact that he was born in Le Grand Abergement, a small town about 80 km northeast of Lyon. However other dates and places are commonly given, such as "Belley, near Lyon in 1607" in [12], and the most common "5 April 1607 in Virieu-le-Grand, Dauphiné" given, for example, in [1] and [6]. In fact Jules Duhem writes in [6] that Fabri was born near the beautiful park where Honoré d'Urfé wrote his novel Astrée, which is consistent with his claim that Fabri was born in Virieu-le-Grand. Lukens comments that he "cannot explain these discrepancies." Wherever Fabri was born, certainly Honoré d'Urfé was his godfather. Fabri's family were judges in the Valromey region, related to the Vaugelas family, and the most likely cause for the confusion over Fabri's place of birth is that he lived in Virieu-le-Grand when he was a child. He attended the Institute in Belley where he developed a love for science and showed himself quick-witted and resolute.
He entered the Jesuit Order on 18 October 1626 spending two years at Avignon. In the autumn of 1628 he entered the famous Collège de la Trinité in Lyon where he spent two years studying Scholastic Philosophy under Claude Boniel (1585-1666). Boniel had entered the Jesuit Order in 1604 and, after studying philosophy and theology at Avignon, taught there between 1615 and 1625. After teaching Fabri for two years in Lyon, Boniel returned to Avignon where he was appointed as Rector of the College. After completing his studies of Scholastic Philosophy at Lyon, Fabri taught grammar for two years (1630-32) at the College in Roanne. He was then sent to Rome where he began a theology course at the Collegio Romano before returning to Lyon to continue his study of theology, completing his studies in 1636. He had been ordained in 1635.
His first position was in a newly-opened Jesuit college, namely as professor of philosophy at the College in Arles, where he taught from 1636 to 1638. He made a brilliant start to his career, teaching logic, philosophy and natural philosophy in Arles. In his lectures he taught about the circulation of blood round the body, a discovery he had made independently of William Harvey who had published his findings De Motu Cordis Ⓣ in 1628. However, later in life Fabri wrote (see [7]):-
... at no time did I ever say that the circulation of the blood had been first discovered by me.After leaving Arles, Fabri continued teaching in Jesuit colleges. He was professor of logic in Aix-en-Provence for a year from 1638 during which time he became the leader of a group of scientists and became a life-long friend of Pierre Gassendi. For six years from 1640, Fabri was professor of logic and mathematics at the Collège de la Trinité in Lyon. There he taught logic, mathematics, natural philosophy, metaphysics and astronomy [1]:-
This period was the most brilliant and fruitful of his life; several books that he published later were developed from lectures delivered during this time. Fabri was the first of many famous professors produced by the Collège de la Trinité: his students included Pierre Mousnier, who later edited many of his teacher's lectures; the mathematician François de Raynaud, who became famous through his friendship with Newton; Jean-Dominique Cassini; and Philippe de La Hire. Claude Dechales and the astronomer and mathematician Berthet were also members of this circle. Among these scholars and the two Huygenses (father and son), Leibniz, Descartes, Mersenne, and others an active correspondence developed.The logic lectures he gave in Lyon were published by his student Pierre Mousnier in 1646 as Philosophiae tomus primus Ⓣ, and the lectures he gave on natural philosophy were published in the same year as Tractatus physicus de motu locali Ⓣ. In this latter work he uses the parallelogram law for forces, correctly applying it to deduce the law of reflection and the motion of a body acted on simultaneously by two forces. In his philosophy book he included a section Methodus meditationis Ⓣ which contains a list of twenty study tips which are discussed in [18]. Peter Dear writes:-
Most are instructions of some kind, usually just a short sentence. The most common phrases in them are of this sort: "Examine diligently," "Interrogate yourself," "Deliberate," "Consider attentively," ... The most interesting of these precepts on meditating, however, come at the end of the list: "Seventeenth. You learn to separate in your mind all causes, to segregate each one from the others, to consider them all separately; that is, so that everything, as if stripped of its coverings, appears more distinctly." "Eighteenth. Consider attentively whatever you take as a supposition, since it commonly happens, that from a mistaken supposition not having been anticipated, every error arises; in this regard, it will be of benefit to examine each supposition separately. ..." "Twentieth. ... to philosophise is to meditate rightly: moreover, indeed, to have without interruption the abstracted and estranged mind of a sleeper."These works did not find favour within the Jesuit Order so he was removed from teaching and sent in 1646 to a Jesuit residence at Fréjus, Var. Later that year, on 12 September, he was sent to Rome to take up an administrative position. Gabriel Thibaut wrote to his fellow Minim brother Marin Mersenne in June 1648 saying that the Jesuit Fathers were doing everything they could to expel Fabri from the Jesuit Order, having unsuccessfully tried to prevent publication of his lectures. In 1648, however, Pierre Mousnier was able to publish Fabri's metaphysical lectures which he had given at Lyon, under the title Metaphysica demonstrativa. It is reasonable to ask why his writings were seen to be 'dangerous' by Fabri's superiors. The main reasons appear to be Fabri's rejection of Aristotle's physics and his belief that space and time were composed of indivisibles. Carla Palmerino gives an example one of Fabri's non-Aristotelian views [32]:-
Fabri was convinced of the superiority of mathematics over all other sciences and went so far as to postulate that it was necessary to apply the axiomatic method not only to physico-mathematical disciplines, but to all of philosophy.Although when Fabri was sent to Rome it was intended to be a temporary measure, he was soon assigned to St Peter's Penitentiary College which is better known as the Inquisition. In Rome Fabri met Michelangelo Ricci and this was to prove helpful to him. Despite being a member of the Inquisition, Fabri was unable to avoid religious problems himself and he was accused of believing the philosophy of Descartes. After spending a year back in Virieu-le-Grand in France in 1668/69, where he went to recover his health, he returned to Rome and was put in prison. His crime seems to have arisen from his study of Saturn's rings in 1660, a topic on which he became involved in a dispute with Huygens which ran for five years. In Eustachii de divinis septempedani brevis annotatio in systema Saturnium Christiani Hugenii Ⓣ (1660) (written anonymously) Fabri wrote:-
As long as no strict proof for the motion of the earth has been found, the Church is competent to decide the issue. If the proof, however, is found, then there should be no difficulty in explaining that the relevant passages in the Bible must be interpreted in a more symbolic sense.This does not seem an extreme statement but it resulted in his prison sentence. Through Michelangelo Ricci, he had made the acquaintance of the Grand Duke Leopold II and the Grand Duke saw that Fabri was released from prison after serving 50 days.
We have seen that Fabri worked on astronomy, physics and mathematics and, in particular, we have mentioned his dispute with Huygens over Saturn's rings. Fabri did not believe that Saturn had a ring system but rather he postulated in his 1660 work that Saturn had two massive but dark satellites close to the planet and two small but bright satellites farther out. After five years of argument with Huygens, he admitted his error, apologised to Huygens, and adopted Huygens' theory. Fabri also originally had an incorrect theory concerning the satellites of Jupiter which he believed moved so as to always be behind the planet, arguing that if they crossed in front of the planet, then they should be seen against the disk and also a shadow cast by the satellite should be visible on the surface of the planet. He was forced to abandon his theory when shadows were observed. Another significant contribution to astronomy is his discovery of the Andromeda nebula.
Fabri developed a theory of tides which was based on the action of the moon. He also studied magnetism, optics and calculus. In calculus he was closer to Newton than to Cavalieri but his notation was cumbersome. His work on the calculus appeared in his major mathematical publication Opusculum geometricum de linea sinuum et cycloide Ⓣ (1659). He wrote this work under the pseudonym ' Antimus Farbius' because of the controversy about the cycloid which arose following Pascal's challenge. In this work Fabri computed
∫ xnsin x dx, and ∫ sinnx dxand other integrals. His other mathematical writings include Synopsis geometrica Ⓣ (1669) and its appendix De maximis et minimis in infinitum propositionumcenturia Ⓣ, written ten years earlier. Fabri had a major influence on the development of the calculus through Leibniz. The two agreed over much of their mathematical and physical ideas, although they disagreed over theological matters. For example Leibniz criticised Fabri's Summula theologica in quâ quaestiones omnes alicujus momenti, quae Scholasticus agitari solent, breviter discutiuntur ac definiuntur Ⓣ (1669) writing (see [4]):-
I have been surprised by seeing one day in Father Honoré Fabri's (one of the ablest members of his order) 'Summula theologica' that he denied (as still do some theologians), regarding divine matters, the great principle that states: two things that are equal to a third are equal to each other.Fabri certainly proposed that one had to treat theological matters differently from physical ones, particularly when dealing with Christian ideas such as the Trinity.
Views of Fabri's importance have varied considerably over time. He was viewed as a leading scientist by his contemporaries and elected to the Accademia del Cimento in 1657, the year the Academy was founded. John Heilbron writes [26]:-
Leibniz placed him with Galileo, Torricelli, Steno and Borelli for his work on elasticity and the theory of vibrations, and alone with Galileo for his efforts to 'rationalise experimental kinematics'. ... Mersenne rated him 'a veritable giant in science' ... the Accademia del Cimento esteemed Fabri, whose 'candor makes his learning additionally agreeable'. ...' I think the keenness of this priest's mind is truly admirable,' [J A Borelli] wrote to Leopold, 'as well as the great learning, frankness, and conviction with which he treats innumerable difficult and recondite matters'.However, over the years historians have tended to be critical of Fabri's contributions, seeing him as a defender of traditional theories rather than an advocate for the new physics which was flowering in his time. One must, of course, understand the difficult position that Fabri was in, for his views, which are seen as too traditional by many historians, were sufficiently daring to see him continually in trouble with the Church. As Knowles Middleton writes in [27] concerning Fabri's Dialogi physici, in quibus de motu terrae disputatur, marini aestus nova causa proponitur, necnon aquarum et mercurii supra libellam elevatio examinatur Ⓣ (1665):-
The book gives the distinct impression that its author was really highly sympathetic to the new cosmology, and it may be that his position as a Papal Penitentiary influenced him to appear to fight a rearguard action in defence of the old theories.Again Domenico Meli writes in [29]:-
... it appears that Fabri was highly unpopular both among the most conservative Jesuits, who saw him as dangerously close to novelties, and among the neoterics and especially Borelli, who saw him as a champion of the old philosophy trying to contrast them on their own ground.Michael Elazar had recently done much to restore Fabri's reputation. For example, he discusses Fabri's theory of impetus in [7]. This is an area where previously historians, such as Alexandre Koyré in Études Galiléennes (1939), have tended to be highly critical of Fabri:-
[Fabri's] concept of impetus should not be seen as a backward device serving to fight the New Science, but should rather be deemed a sophisticated tool for assimilating it. In particular, regarding Fabri's concept of impetus as alien to inertia is simply wrong; for Fabri carefully redefined the concept of impetus, as well as the causal connection between impetus and motion, so as to be able to smoothly assimilate the basic idea behind "inertia", i.e. the tendency of a moving and unhindered object to continue its motion with uniform velocity and along a straight line ad infinitum. Fabri, eager to adopt linear conservation of motion - officially and explicitly published only in Descartes' 'Principia' (1644) - achieved this by defining (in 1646) impetus as a formal (rather than efficient) cause of motion, thus evading the argument Koyré would raise (three centuries after Fabri) against the compatibility of impetus and inertia. In order to ensure the linearity of the motion conserved, Fabri followed Giovanni Battista Benedetti, against the medieval impetus tradition, in limiting the action of impetus to straight lines. Moreover, although Fabri - unlike Descartes before him and Newton after him - did not define linear conservation of motion as a law of nature, nevertheless it was an integral part of what could be described as his "inertial framework", which was expressed also by the analysis of natural phenomena in vacuum, by support for Galileo's claim concerning the universal velocity of fall in the void, and by the abstraction of air resistance from the analysis of motion. Fabri actually used linear conservation of motion within the discrete analysis he developed as a "mirror image" of Galileo's (continuous) treatment of free fall, and took pains to prove that this discrete analysis - a product of the seventeenth, not the fourteenth, century - converges (assuming infinitesimal instants) to Galileo's famous "odd numbers" law. Fabri is indeed far from being an opponent of vacuum, and contrary to Buridan and many of his contemporaries never denies motion devoid of any resistance, i.e. motion in the void. Rather, Fabri claims that the (full) universe is immersed in an infinite vacuum, and passionately defends the scientific validity of the concept of void, both by sharply attacking the "paradoxes" formulated by Aristotle to prove the "absurdity" of the concept of void, and by severely criticizing Descartes' anti-vacuist reduction of matter to extension.
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Another Hegelian Mind Fck: 'Muslims Must Not Pay Price for Europe's Identity Crisis'
Zahir Ebrahim | Project Humanbeingsfirst.org | PDF
December 26, 2009
It is not European woes nor its Identity Crisis, and nor any 'shortcomings' of Islam that is causing Muslims to be demonized in the Western World. It is also not very obtuse. Why are brilliant social scientists and academics like Ramzy Baroud getting confused about it: "Unearthing the reasons behind the disturbing phenomena is hardly an easy task, for it arguably requires a greater examination of the political, economic and social woes of European states than it does of the 'shortcomings' of Islam."?
It has neither anything to do with "political, economic and social woes of European states" nor with Islam. Why do brave people continually rise to defend Islam as if the world's great religion of more than 1.5 billion people needs their pathetic defense, that it can't stand on its own without their guarded fig leaf: "Islam is a great religion in many respects; it has endured for over 1400 years. Its membership is never confined by skin color, culture, political ideology or geographic boundaries. Its views of antiquity, on equality, women rights and peace are considered progressive even by today's standards. The detractors of Islam fail to see all this."
The foundations of what is courageously not stated however is actually rather easily visible for anyone well versed in political and social sciences in the "doctrinal motivation, intellectual commitment" designed to sustain "imperial mobilization" as a Hegelian Dialectic to raise the phoenix of the new Atlantis from the ashes of the Old Order: a One-world government. Is this so very profound to comprehend?
Why do pious people continually make "World War IV" out to be about Islam and Muslims? They either see it as being a war on Islam and apologetically argue that Islam is benign and that "The detractors of Islam fail to see all this" as Ramzy Baroud does in 'Muslims Must Not Pay Price for Europe's Identity Crisis'; or see it as there being something inherently wrong with an antediluvian Islam which needs to be overhauled to bring it in line with modernity as Daniel Pipes and Bernard Lewis et. al. do in their doctrinal craftsmanship such as 'Crisis of Islam – Holy War and Unholy Terror' and in propagandist statements like it's "Not a Clash of Civilizations, It's a Clash between the Civilized World and Barbarians"; or see it as something wrong with the Muslims who need a reformation from their Dark Age as Pakistani native informant par excellence, Pervez Hoodbhoy does in his atheistic zealotry to reform the Muslim mind. In all cases, they calculatingly distract attention from the blatant fact of the matter that hectoring hegemons are engaging in demonization and false-flag operations to "goosestep the Herrenvolk across international frontiers" in their age old quest for Lebensraum, euphemistically called Global Governance.
A similar demonization was employed against the communists not too long ago, and even backed by wanton acts of terrorism upon the civilians in Western Europe – see Operation Gladio, NATO's Stay-Behind Armies which did more than just fight the communists with their false-flag operations – to convince an ever growing skeptical European public of the communist threat.
From Kawther Salam's coverage of "the referendum in Switzerland on banning the construction of minarets" to Ramzy Baroud's: "targeting of Muslims and Islam has become a kind of national theater in France", is entirely along that very political science axis.
It is crafting a broad spectrum public enemy to rally the masses against in a lifetime of "World War IV" – from cultural to militant – in order to engage in a social transformation that is to take a lifetime to accomplish. That requires a sustained "doctrinal motivation" to fuel the global transformation-inducing World War for that duration. It makes it possible for the public to pay its full price in the "economic self-denial (that is defense spending), and the human sacrifice (casualties even among professional soldiers)" including exchanging their "essential liberties for some temporary safety", all of which is otherwise "uncongenial to democratic instincts. Democracy is inimical to imperial mobilization."
As was noted in the minute books of the Carnegie Endowment for Peace in 1909 and discovered by the Congressional Reece Committee's lead investigator in 1954, Norman Dodd: 'The question is: "Is there any means known more effective than war, assuming you wish to alter the life of an entire people?" And they conclude that no more effective means than war to that end is known to humanity.'
Only through that transparent standard 50 mm lens of Machiavellian political science does the reality imaged on a 35 mm film plane, as the observation made by Mr. Ramzy Baroud, becomes correctly captured without inducing perspective distortion: "what is most alarming about the anti-Muslim measures is that they are largely led by the government itself, rather than a fanatical group of disenchanted ideologues".
Further elaboration was already penned in response to Kawther Salam's coverage of Islamic minarets despoiling the beautiful scenic views of the Swiss Alps. See 'Minarets blocking the view of the Swiss Alps'.
Unless one calls a spade a spade ab initio beginning at the first cause, starting at some intermediate effect and getting lost in the carefully crafted 'Hegelian mind fcks' which are calculatingly manufactured to "look like a 'booming buzzing confusion'" as the CFR author Richard Gardner put it in 1974, is apparently trivial for even the most brilliant and/or pious of observers.
But start ab initio at the gates of political science, namely, with "Hegemony is as old as mankind" and "democracy is inimical to imperial mobilization", even a lowly plebeian can straightforwardly get it right, that: "In short, the 'house of world order' will have to be built from the bottom up, rather than from the top down. It will look like a great 'booming, buzzing confusion' to use William James' famous description of reality, but an end run around national sovereignty, eroding it piece by piece will accomplish much more than the old-fashioned frontal assault." All that remains if one starts ab initio, is to boldly traverse the poisonous tree of hegelian dialectics in a depth-first search and systematically unravel the multi-spectrum, deception-laden, and blood-drenched diabolics crafted to achieve that first-principle.
Or does it actually take a wholly un-pious and non-academic conspiratorial mind to penetrate the depths of moral and intellectual depravity of the realpolitik of hectoring hegemons?
Or is it perhaps only the co-opted mind working on fabricating dissent which fails to see the obvious? Or is it merely the fools who fail to see it? Indoctrination I fear is oversold in the psycho-babble of erudite learning and makes a convenient excuse for not exercising one's commonsense, one's gift of thought and reflection, one's gift of being human. All of us have it – why do only a handful use it? Intellectuals like Noam Chomsky would of course argue 'indoctrination'. But Chomsky does not finger the puppetmasters either, and like the rest of the progressive, and/or liberal, and/or left-wing, and/or right-wing truth-tellers, hectors the empire in much lauded and passionate dissent while still echoing its message. An entire book can be written on how that is accomplished!
A people can suffer its traitors but not its fools, as a wise man once put it. When humanity is being systematically enslaved across the world at the altar of "imperial mobilization" into a one-world government of the banksters' making, and the most pious of truth-tellers refrain from expressing the puppetmasters and instead concentrate on their puppetshows, the biggest impediment to checking the Hectoring Hegemons becomes the fabricated dissent and the countless type-1 and type-2 fools (see Hitler's classification in Mein Kampf) who respectively follow them. And they thus detract from forming a cohesive and focussed alliance against the singular enemy of mankind which seeds all corruption and is entirely responsible for "all the evil that follows".
1: Zbigniew Brzezinski, The Grand Chessboard, 1997.
2: Zahir Ebrahim, Prisoners of the Cave, 2003, http://tinyurl.com/Deconstructing-Brzezinski
3: Papers and policy prescriptions of the Council on Foreign Relations, and its Foreign Affairs.
4: Nuremberg Transcript, Closing speech of Robert H. Jackson.
5: Ramzy Baroud, 'Muslims Must Not Pay Price for Europe's Identity Crisis', http://tinyurl.com/baroud
6: Kawther Salam, 'Swiss Govt Unhappy With Minaret Referendum', http://tinyurl.com/Kawther-Swiss
7: Zahir Ebrahim, 'Minarets blocking the view of the Swiss Alps', http://humanbeingsfirst.files.wordpress.com/2009/12/minarets-blocking-the-view-of-swiss-alps.pdf
8: Zahir Ebrahim, 'War on Terror' is not about 'Islamofascism' – Please get with the real agenda you people! http://tinyurl.com/WarOnTerrorBS
9: Zahir Ebrahim, Between Imperial Mobilization and Islamofascism: Bribing the Maggots and the Soul Extractor, http://tinyurl.com/Imperial-Mobilization
10: Hegelian Dialectics Tutorial http://tinyurl.com/Hegelian-Dialectics
11: Norman Dodd, 'The Hidden Agenda of Tax Exempt Foundations for World Government', interview G. Edward Griffin, http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8605813744843314322
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the new Howa Actuator Controlled Trigger™ on a Howa 1500 rifle in .308
This is big
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because the trigger pull is too heavy.
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chambered in .308 Winchester. Nice rig. It came topped with the Nikko Stirling
3-10x42 Nighteater scope, which made a really nice, tidy package.
single-stage triggers had more or less become the norm in Gundom over time, I
always liked two-stage triggers, because of the way I could take-up the slack
and then actually know when the rifle was going to go off.
It was
something I had learned on the old military surplus rifles, target rifles and
the like. Then again in recent times, I have begun to use two-stage triggers
more, since some of the more fun trigger systems on AR rifles are two-stage.
So when
Legacy announced a two-stage system for the Howa rifle, I became excited. And I
wasn't disappointed in the shooting of it, either.
The take-up
on the trigger was fast and easy. The crisp, positive release when pressure was
put on during the second stage was remindful of some of the target rifles I
shot through the years.
the trigger itself does nothing to impede the shot, which is crucial at the
moment of truth.
When I
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the time it was taken out of the box until it was fully sighted-in and
hunt-ready. Actually, it was pretty much ready at three shots, but I fired to
more to confirm – which is my normal routine.
Legacy has
done it again – taken a great product and made it even better.
Howa rifles
tend to be extremely accurate, which means that it is possible to actually take
advantage of things like a trigger that really works right.
Comus is a nationally recognized hunting editor with Safari Club International
and a former WON Guns and Hunting Editor. His column appears every other week
in WON and he can be reached at email@example.com.
NEW TRIGGER system,
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Last night, I forgot to wear my swimming goggles before going to sleep.
I woke up this morning with severe pain in my right eye after opening my eyes. The pain can be described as excruciating. This has happened to me before, a few times, and the pain always subsided after a couple hours.
Today, however, the pain has not gone away. What a miserable day. I have constant excruciating pain in my right eye (feels like someone just poked me in the eye), extremely blurred vision, and the eye is very, very red.
Unfortunately, since it is the 1st, my LASIK clinic is closed. I thought about going to the emergency room.
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Is RCE caused by dry eyes? If I am experiencing RCE, is this something that goes away after the 6 month healing period, or if my dry eyes resolves? I am about 3 months post-custom wavefront LASIK.
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Bipartisan plan in Senate would prevent doubling of student loan interest rate
WASHINGTON -- A bipartisan group of senators has announced a proposal to prevent a doubling of the interest rate on certain federal student loans, an increase that would affect 7 million college students in the coming school year.
On Monday, the rate on subsidized Stafford loans will rise to 6.8 percent from 3.4 percent unless Congress intervenes. The loans, targeting undergraduate students in financial need, do not accrue interest while the students are in school.
It is unclear whether lawmakers will be able to get a bill to President Barack Obama before the deadline. The Republican-led House in May passed a bill that would tie interest rates on federal education loans to the government's cost of borrowing, with the interest on each individual loan varying from year to year. The Democratic-led Senate so far has deadlocked over the issue, failing to pass Republican or Democratic proposals. Many congressional Democrats want a two-year extension of the 3.4 percent rate, which Republicans say would be too costly.
On Wednesday, Sens. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., Richard Burr, R-N.C., Tom Coburn, R-Okla., and Angus King, I-Maine, announced a plan that they said would yield lower rates for students and parents and bring more certainty for borrowers, while saving the government $1 billion over 10 years. King, an independent, caucuses with Democrats.
Under their plan, the rate for undergraduate Stafford loans -- regardless of whether they are subsidized -- would be set each year at the yield on the 10-year Treasury bill plus 1.85 percentage points, according to a statement Manchin released. This year, that would translate to an effective interest rate of less than 4 percent.
Certain other federal loans, for graduate students and parents, also would be tied to the yield on the 10-year T-bill plus a higher markup.
The interest rate for each loan would be fixed after the money is borrowed. The senators said students worried about excessive interest rates, should the government's cost of borrowing rise, would have the option of consolidating their federal loans at a rate no higher than 8.25 percent.
"This bipartisan agreement not only makes sure student rates will not double on July 1, but this is a long-term fix that will lower rates for all students and will save students $30 billion over the next three years, making sure anyone who wants an education, can afford one," Manchin said in his statement.
Hurdles were immediately apparent.
Adam Jentleson, a spokesman for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., said late Wednesday: "There is no deal on student loans that can pass the Senate because Republicans continue to insist that we reduce the deficit on the backs of students and middle-class families, instead of closing tax loopholes for the wealthiest Americans and big corporations."
Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, chairman of the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, wants a firm cap on interest rates, said his spokeswoman Allison Preiss. "Any proposal that lacks a cap is a nonstarter," she said.


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>> Phillip Lim showed a modern collection filled with desert hues and new cuts for Pre-Fall 2011. "I was interested in creating interesting profiles," said Lim. Also a focus of the collection? Pieces that can be worn more than one way: jersey-chiffon knits and a rabbit fur coat are reversible, a gray wool overcoat has a detachable collar, wrap-front trousers have flaps that can be worn hanging down for a more undone look, and the coats have straps at the armholes to allow them to be worn slung over the shoulders — and stay in place. The collection, which was loosely inspired by late British writer and cartographer Freya Stark, also featured Lim's newest creation: a textile consisting of cotton woven with abaca, a fibrous plant from the Philippines.


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By KURT KRAGTHORPE Digital First Media
NEW ORLEANS - Super Bowl XLVII already was memorable because of a power outage that stopped the game in the third quarter.
The San Francisco 49ers wanted it to become historic, nearly pulling off the biggest comeback from a deficit in Super Bowl history.
But in the end, the Baltimore Ravens overcame a loss of momentum caused by the 35-minute power outage and held on for a thrilling 34-31 victory at the Superdome Sunday.
'We don't want make anything easy,' said Ravens quarterback Joe Flacco, the Super Bowl MVP.
The 49ers, who trailed 28-6 early in the third quarter, drove to the Baltimore 5-yard line in the final two minutes, only to be turned away. Quarterback Colin Kaepernick threw three straight incompletions with San Francisco trailing 34-29.
The fourth-down play was controversial, with Ravens cornerback Jimmy Smith tightly covering Michael Crabtree. San Francisco coach Jim Harbaugh was convinced that Smith held Crabtree, but no penalty was called. A pass-interference call would have given San Francisco a fresh first down at the 1-yard-line.
'In my opinion, that series should have continued,' Harbaugh said.
On fourth down with 12 seconds left deep in its own territory, Baltimore took an intentional safety rather than risk a blocked punt to give San Francisco two points, then squibbed a free kick that ended the game.
Ten points remains the largest deficit ever overcome to win a Super Bowl.
Reacting to beating his brother, Ravens coach John Harbaugh said, 'It's very tough. It's a lot tougher than I thought it was going to be. It's very painful.'
As a wild-card playoff team, nothing came easily for the Ravens. They needed a 70-yard touchdown pass in the final minute of regulation to force overtime at Denver in the divisional round, then rallied to win at New England in the AFC championship game.
And then the Super Bowl became more challenging than anyone would have imagined, once they took a 22-point lead.
On the 49ers last drive, 'I was sitting there thinking there's no way we can stop them here,' Flacco said. 'But we did, and that's what our defense is all about.'
The power outage interrupted the game early in the third quarter, resulting in a 35-minute delay after the Ravens had gone ahead 28-6 on Jacoby Jones' NFL record-tying 108-yard kickoff return to begin the second half.
'Oh, my goodness … we had a ton of momentum at the time,' said Ravens tight end Dennis Pitta. 'Then the power goes out and we're waiting for what felt like an hour. We lost a lot of momentum and, credit to them, they came storming back and played tremendous. But this team has continued to fight and never quit.'
The stoppage certainly altered the complexion of the game. The 49ers responded with three touchdowns and a field goal on their next four possessions. But they could not quite catch Baltimore. The 49ers failed in a two-point conversion attempt which would have tied the game midway through the fourth quarter, and then they were denied again at the end.
Flacco completed 22 of 33 passes for 287 yards and three touchdowns. Kaepernick was 16 of 28 for 302 yards.
The Ravens had taken a 21-6 halftime lead via Flacco's three touchdown passes – 13 yards to Anquan Boldin, 1 yard to Pitta and 56 yards to Jones. Flacco completed 13 of 20 passes for 192 yards in the first half, extending his brilliant postseason play.
Jones' touchdown came after he was wide open down the middle of the field. He caught a long pass, fell at the 6-yard line, then got up and weaved his way into the end zone.
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If you didn't pick up the special edition of Max Payne 3, never fear. The awesome classic multiplayer character skins included in the fancy pants version will be offered for sale post-launch. Rockstar's given a little run down on each of the characters for those unfamiliar with them, too. Max Payne 3 hits the US […]
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If you haven't yet placed your Street Fighter x Tekken pre-order, consider a Korean import so you can own these amazing figurines.
Max Payne 3 special edition to cost $100
Rockstar's announced a special edition for Max Payne 3.
Batman: Arkham City Steelbook Edition exclusive to AU, NZ
Warner Bros. has unveiled a schmick limited edition of Batman Arkham City, available only through EB Games stores in Australia and New Zealand.
Batman: Arkham City Collector's Edition pops up
Let's see if Batman: Arkham City can top its precursors special edition efforts by not including a plastic batarang.
Assassin's Creed Special Edition detailed for UK
A GAME and gamestation UK-exclusive Special Edition of Assassin's Creed: Revelations has been announced.
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When Sniper: Ghost Warrior finally makes the jump to PlayStation 3 this month, it's doing it in style.
Gears of War 3 Gamestop editions include retro lancer
Epic Games has announced two spanking Gamestop-exclusive Gears of War 3 editions, each of which include a full sized Retro Lancer replica.
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Pre-order RAGE, and you'll be automatically upgraded to the Anarchy edition, which contains four exclusive items.
Disgaea 4 premium and super premium editions detailed
NIS America has unveiled the contents of the premium editions of upcoming strategy RPG Disgaea 4: A Promise Unforgotten. The highlight? That'd have to be the 9 exclusive Disgaea 4 figures that come bundled with the super premium edition.
Two Worlds II Royal Edition hits US retail
The extra-special Royal Edition of Two Worlds II has finally arrived at US retail after a delay of several weeks.
Darkspore limited edition trailer and preorder bonus
Maxis has released a trailer for Darkspore, showing off the Limited Edition version and its exclusive, in-game preorder bonus, the heavily-armoured Maldri.
Amazon France lists GT5 "special edition"
Look: there's a GT5 "Edition Spéciale" listed on Amazon France for €74,95. Don't confuse this with the normal edition, obviously. That costs €65,99. Both are out on March 31, apparently. No, none of it's confirmed. Remember this, though? Thanks, GTPlanet.
Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2 SE detailed, new co-op screens released
Tecmo just confirmed a Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2 Special Edition for an October 2 release for £50. It's an HMV exclusive, and can be pre-ordered here. The pack contains, according to the PR you'll find after the break: A copy of the game. Limited Edition 80 page 'Ninja Gaiden Treasury' featuring: – Ninja Gaiden Sigma […]
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PCGames.de's posted an image of the German Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising special edition, revealing the gift to end all gifts – a free helmet. We have no idea if the helmet's coming to the UK. It's irrelevant, anyway: we're now committed to owning the German helmet. It's out for PC, 360 and PS3 in October.
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Kotaku's posted what's apparently a retail listing for a red 360 Elite. It's $400, says the shot, which comes from a Toys 'R' Us. This is most likely the Resident Evil 5 special edition rumoured a few weeks ago. It's never been officially confirmed. RE5's out in March.
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Balluff Inc., Florence, KY, announced that its German parent company, Balluff GmbH, acquired SIE Sensorik Industrie GmbH, a German capacitive-sensor company.
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Interview w/ Dena Hoff, co-coordinator in North America for La Via Campesina, talking about their vision of social change, and how the agricultural challenges faced around the world are not always so different from those faced in the U.S. To read more visit the Worldwatch Institute's Nourishing the Planet blog at www.NourishingthePlanet.org.
Bio: Dena Hoff is a farmer and activist in Eastern Montana, where she has raised sheep, cattle, alfalfa, corn, edible dry beans and other crops, with her husband since 1979. In addition to her work with Via Campesina, Hoff is Vice President of the National Family Farm Coalition and former Chair of the Northern Plains Resource Council.
Via Campesina has been credited with coining the term "food sovereignty." Can you describe what it means and how your work supports and promotes it?
Q: Via Campesina has been credited with coining the term "food sovereignty." Can you describe what it means and how your work supports and promotes it?
Food sovereignty is about a system of agriculture where people get to decide their own food and agricultural policies in their own countries without being dictated by foundations or institutions like the WTO or the IMF or the World Bank or trade agreements. People decide what they're going to eat, who's going to produce it, what's going to be produced. And more than that, it's a whole life system that is sustainable, that respects Mother Earth, that respects human rights and the rights of people to live in dignity, to be well-fed, to be reasonably taken care of, have a decent standard of living. Everything that food sovereignty encompasses is human rights, women's rights and education: everything that makes a good life and protects the planet.
Via Campesina is a very large social movement. We're not a legal entity at all, but we are made up of groups around the world. We think that we have as many as 300 million members, though we've never been able to get a direct number. We're growing, growing, growing because people realize that we can only change the world into a place where everybody can live and a world where everybody wants to live by banding together, standing together, sharing each other's stories and showing solidarity. We need to educate people: people who are not farmers but who of course are eaters, people who care about the environment, people who care about human rights and social justice and the environment – they need to be part of this movement. It's going to take everyone.
There are too few people who control the power, who control the resources, who control the wealth of the world, and the destiny of the rest of us. I don't like anybody pulling my strings. I am not a puppet, I am an independent human being and I have wishes and dreams and fears for my own family, my children, my grandchildren, my nieces, my nephews, my community. And I want to see these things become reality and I'm just willing to just keep working forever.
The biggest part of that responsibility is educating other people, and getting them to stand up to power and that's a very difficult thing. People do not like conflict, people do not like to stand up to power. They have some idea that the people who are in power are smarter than they are and have something that they don't have – if only they knew that those people who are controlling their lives are just ordinary people!
Until we give people the confidence to take back control of their own lives and their communities, nothing is going to change. It's a big, big, task. But it should hearten people to know that there are millions, and millions, and millions, and millions of people around the world who are very dedicated to doing this, and who are willing to do it.
Q: What role does gender play in La Via Campesina's work?
Gender is extremely important, because most of the world's farmers are women! And a lot of those women are hungry women, because they are the people who are being forced off land, have no access to resources and no access to credit. We also started a campaign in Mozambique at our Fifth International Assembly against violence against women. So we have that international campaign, and the young people have just taken it up! They have put on plays, and they have dramas, and they are doing literature and are going around to communities and educating people on why it is so important that women have an equal voice, equal rights and equal opportunities.
Gender balance is very important to us. There will never be any real equity in the world until women are seen as equal partners, standing shoulder to shoulder with men. One of our original seven pillars was gender. We also fought very hard in 2000 for gender parity on our coordinating committee, and we got it – we have a male and a female for each of the assigned regions.
We have a lot of programs in a lot of countries also for training women: in agriculture, in literacy, and also in political training. So that they have an understanding of what's impacting their lives. We also have programs that help them develop means of making a living, so it's very important.
Q: What are some of the similarities between what's happening to agriculture across the world, and what's happening here in the U.S.?
Land grabs happen in this country too (see: Large Scale Land Investments Do Not Benefit Local Communities). In my neighborhood, groups of bankers or lawyers or investors are investing in farmland because I guess they think they're going to get a better return than on some other thing. And farmers have no recourse. I mean no-one here who wanted to expand or who wanted to help one of their children get started in agriculture, they can't possibly match those prices. The land is lost for agriculture. A great big and lovely farming ranch along the Yellowstone River went to a real estate developer from Maryland who's now running for the legislature in Montana. Land is being turned into hunting or fishing places or little retreats – it's not being used for agriculture.
Look at what's happening in Detroit. They have torn down about forty buildings in downtown Detroit, they're going to tear down about that many more. And there are a lot of vacant lots that can be used for urban agriculture. But, there's a big developer who wants to commercialize it for profits instead of the city giving the lots over to the community for urban farming. So there's a big fight going on in Detroit – that's land grabbing, isn't it?
I belong to the Northern Plains Resource Council, that's my state organization in Montana. They have, for years, been trying to protect family agriculture, educate people about the importance of it and protect it from energy developers and speculators. The National Family Farm Coalition has been involved since 1987 in policy work in Washington, DC, trying to get a decent farm bill so that we can protect our family agriculture. But when you go lobby, you hear "We don't need American farmers, we can import everything cheaper." Congressmen will actually say that to you.
So my question has always been: If transportation, communication and energy are a matter of national security, shouldn't food be a matter of national security? Shouldn't water be a matter of national security? Instead of just a commodity for someone to make money from?
Q: How does global agriculture and trade policy affect the environment, global hunger, and poverty?
We had all the hype about how industrial agriculture was going to end hunger, how GMOs were going to end hunger, and look what's happened. There's a billion hungry people, almost a half a million of those are in the United States. Hunger is increasing, poverty is increasing, and all of the industrialization hasn't done one single thing to end hunger, and we've been destroying the environment. So the solution actually turned out to be very, very damaging – far more damaging than the problems that we had before industrial agriculture was proposed as the solution to hunger and the environment.
Look at the deforestation for biofuels in Brazil, the destruction of traditional agriculture in Indonesia in favor of palm plantations for biofuels. Shoving people off the land and forcing them to the cities where there are no livelihoods is not the solution. Or forcing them to become slaves as is happening all over the world. We like to think that we're in the twenty-first century, and slavery is something of the past: it isn't. It's worse. It's getting worse every day. There are so many examples of people being forced into slavery, literally having their livelihoods taken away from them because somebody else wants to make a profit off of the resources that they made a modest living with. And then if they wish to survive they can become practically slave labor for these people who just took away their livelihood. So if that's not slavery, I don't know what the definition is.
Q: Why are large scale land acquisitions, or land-grabs, problematic?
It's problematic because there are a lot of places where land is owned communally, or there's not a deed to the land, and it's just land that communities have made their living with, in some places for over 1000 years, maybe more. And suddenly, this has a value beyond somebody's livelihood, beyond somebody having to have food and shelter. And someone finds out they can make a profit, and they come in and take it.
Now in the case of Mali, Mali has put food sovereignty in their constitution – and then their President leases large amounts of arable land to the Saudis, for ten years. That's totally against the constitution, it's totally illegal, but there doesn't seem to be a national or international mechanism to force governments to abide by their own laws and their own constitution. It just seems like increasingly the world is a more lawless place, where anything goes if it makes money.
Q: What policies or programs are needed for more robust protection of land rights and land reform?
Well, first of all I wish the international court would actually take a look at what's happening in countries where a lot of land grabbing is going on, and tell governments that this is not acceptable, and that you are being held up to international public scrutiny, and we're not going to allow you to do this. Ultimately I guess it's just the people having to take control. And that's difficult, especially in governments where they just send the army in to kill you if you protest.
Q: Do you think there's any role for multinational corporations to play in improving the situation for farmers and peasants here and across the world?
I'm not sure that's the role they want. Their mission is their bottom line, to pay dividends to their investors. Their mission is not to do good. Their mission is not to protect the environment or nurture societies. They're doing what they're set up to do, and they've been given far too many rights and too much power. I mean, equal protection under the law for a corporation? A friend of mine who was inside used to say, "What kind of craziness is that?" Corporations have no soul to save and no ass to kick and they are totally unaccountable to anyone.
What happens when they do something ugly that causes people to lose their lives? If I would do something accidentally like kill someone in a traffic accident, that would be manslaughter, I would be brought up on charges, I would have to suffer the consequences. You don't really hear about anyone in a corporation having to take responsibility for the lives they cause to be lost through their greed and negligence. They have the same protection as any individual, but I guess they don't have the same responsibility.
Q: How could agencies like the World Bank and UN Food and Agriculture Organization do a better job to support La Via Campesina's mission?
They could do a better job by ensuring that people in countries that need food aid have access to means of production so that they can feed themselves, and not rely on charity. To make them self-reliant. Education, condemning the privatization of water, health care – the poorest people don't get those basic things and they don't get basic services, because they simply can't pay. And all this hype about corporations being able to produce more – producing more is not the answer. You can go to the markets in the poorest countries and you can see mountains of food, and people starving to death right nearby. If they have no means to a livelihood, they have no means to feed themselves, and no means to make a living, then they can't buy food. There can be all the extra food in the world, but if they don't have money, they die.
Q: How can people get involved to help La Via Campesina's efforts?
We always need people to hook up with our organizations in all of our countries, and support legislation in those countries that will turn governments around – so that they do the right thing for civil society and are not totally governed by corporations. We have six organizations in the U.S. that belong to Via Campesina. And we're always looking for people who can help with translation.
We want people to take an interest in the policies of their own countries, in the plight of family agriculture, family fishermen, migrant workers and landless workers, and get educated about what these people face. And also how it impacts you! Because even if you think you are isolated and insulated from all the trouble that's happening, it impacts everybody because everybody eats. Everybody eats!
If there are only huge massive plantations producing our food with basically slave labor, if workers have no rights, and the environment is just sneered at (because no-one enforces environmental laws), if human rights are not protected, and people are allowed to be brought into the country illegally or otherwise and then just dumped if they're injured or hurt, and are not well paid – that does not reflect very well on us as a society or as people. Especially people that like to call themselves "good Christians", and think that anybody who doesn't look just like them should be shipped out, or denied services. That they shouldn't be allowed to eat, that they shouldn't have health care, that they shouldn't be allowed to be educated because they "don't belong."
My family came as immigrants from Europe, and they had things to overcome too. I think people in this country should realize that unless you're a Native American, you're an immigrant – and [they should] identify with the new immigrants.
Q: So much of La Via Campesina's work is about mobilizing people. What agricultural or economic policies do you think could be implemented to address the needs of small-scale farmers and agricultural producers in order to help create the change you envision?
Certainly a decent farm bill with a farmer-owned reserve, and a farm bill that actually gives farmers a price so that they can live and support their communities. Because it isn't just about farmers -I mean, the money they make supports a whole entire community, our states. And I think people need to understand the importance of agriculture to this country, and what happens to countries that let their agriculture go, and depend on importing all their food from somewhere else. There are plenty of examples in the world of countries that can no longer feed themselves because somebody decided it was cheaper or more intelligent to buy all their food from somebody else, and concentrate on economies that don't feed people, and concentrate the wealth into the hands of just a very few.
Q: Final thoughts:
Everybody has to become an activist, even if it's just educating themselves. Even if it's just making a phone call or planting a garden, or looking around and seeing if your neighbors are one of the one-in-eight people who are hungry. Be aware of what's going on around you!