The Pirates of Privacy – Can they Crack the Smart Grid?

The Vermont chapter of American Civil Liberties Union is challenging the privacy issue of Vermont’s new Smart Grid. The following highlight is the ACLU-VT e-update on VT legislation S.78 – The Advancement of Technological Infrastructure in Vermont. “Smart Meter” Privacy Threats Highlighted S. 78, a technology infrastructure bill, envisions big changes in the way Vermonters [...]

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Free Survival Workshop – Hardwick VT – UPDATED

  This will be the first of its kind. These free workshops/classes are center on building a SID (Subterranean, Indigenous, Domicile) and includes many other aspects of survival.   This first SID uses both conventional and indigenous building techniques and starts Aug 27 (weekends only) and goes to Oct 24 (end date not set yet). [...]

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Big Article on Labeling GMO Foods!

Monsanto’s Achilles Heel    -    By RONNIE CUMMINS     July 29 – 31, 2011 The Achilles heel of Monsanto and the biotech industry is consumers’ right to know… In the EU there are almost no genetically engineered crops under cultivation or GE consumer food products on supermarket shelves. And why is this? Not because [...]

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Where is the GMO Labeling in Vermont? Shopper’s guide to non-GMO Foods

Embedded Below is a comprehensive list (by category of food type) of Brands that are GMO Free. It also includes brands that may have GMO ingredients. Save it, Print it, Share it. GMO Free Shoppers-Guide Search – Verifier Non-GMO Products Vermont’s GMO Labeling legislation: Excerpt from: House Bill 367 LABELING GENETICALLY ENGINEERED FOOD “Genetically engineered ingredient” [...]

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Life and Debt

Are the Austerity measures of Europe about to cross the Atlantic? Spanish “Indignados” taking over Madrid again… Greece < Germany  the € Debt Question

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60 Million Dollars of Presumption on Preemption

Donald M. Kreis, attorney and professor at the Vermont Law School said “I flat out predict that they [Entergy] will, in fact, order their fuel rods” and keep the plant running past 2012, Quote from VT DIGGER article analyzing the injunction An end quote in the embedded “News Report” below on Vermont Yankee re-fueling: They’ll be missed if [...]

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Rural Vermont Update July 22

As many of us know, consumer interest in healthy, natural or organic foods is growing. As a result, many food companies are selling “All Natural” products which are priced higher than similar products despite the fact that they may be filled with SYNTHETIC and GENETICALLY ENGINEERED (GE) ingredients. Relevant studies and data indicate that consumers [...]

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Fairewinds Update July 19

Ex Japanese Nuclear Regulator Blames Radioactive Animal Feed on “Black Rain” While many radioactive cattle have been discovered large distances from Fukushima, what is more important is where their feed is coming from. “It’s not only about the radioactive cattle in Fukushima Prefecture; its also about the radioactive straw the cattle eat that was grown [...]

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Smart Grid On “Track” VT

Excerpt from : Smart meters will allow Vermonters to track electrical use By HOWARD WEISS-TISMAN                            July 21, 2011 BRATTLEBORO — Some Windham County home and business owners could see the first smart meters by the end of the year, after the state announced [...]

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Vermont Yankee – Shut it Down

Excerpts from Entergy injunction request denied; trial set to begin on Sept. 12   by Randolph T. Holhut Last month, lawyers for Entergy appeared in federal court in Brattleboro asking for an injunction that would allow the plant to stay open past the expiration of the Vernon plant’s original 40-year operating license on March 21, 2012…. On Monday [...]

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Treating Cancer at Home?

Cancer treatment at home? It sounds far fetched, but it makes sense that where ever there is a conflict in Nature there is a solution. I haven’t researched Cancer much, but with the warnings from Arnie Gundersen about Fukushima and Hot Particles, it seems like this is an essential knowledge for the present and future. From [...]

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Hydro-Fracking is Polluting our Fresh Water and Air

In this post I am exploring the world of Hydraulic Fracturing or Hydro-fracking. Excerpt from: Hydro-Fracking Company Nixes New York State Kids’ Coloring Book Propaganda by Sydney Brownstone Jul 14, 2011 Hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, is a way of extracting natural gas from the earth by shooting jets of sand, water and chemicals into Marcellus Shale rock deposits in order [...]

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The Dark Side of ‘Smart’ Meters

In this presentation Rob States an engineer, explains how “smart meters” work and why they endanger our health and privacy. Rob has extensive experience in microwave technology and power production. Watch it!  

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Study Shows Conventional Farming Increases Pest Pressure

(Beyond Pesticides, July 15, 2011) A study conducted by researchers at Michigan State University and published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences has linked the growth of industrial farming systems to increased pest pressure and higher pesticide use, highlighting the importance of biodiversity in agriculture. The researchers found that “landscape simplification” in the form of conversion [...]

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NRC Recommends “Upgrading” Safety Standards on US Reactors

The NRC granted Vermont Yankee a 20 year extension of its operators license just 10 days after the nuclear disaster at Fukushima, Japan. Now 4 months later the NRC wants the US nuclear industry to “upgrade” their reactors. Excerpt from the VPR article: (Dillon) An NRC task force says that in light of the Japanese disaster, [...]

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