By Jack Adam Weber L.Ac., Dipl. C.H.

Contributing Writer for Wake Up World

On February 4, 2015 the attorney representing Monsanto and other “agricultural and biotech groups” showed up at our County Council meeting here on the Big Island of Hawai’i. She was here to sabotage our GMO ban, which was heroically passed on a glorious December 5, 2013. As expected, once this legislation was passed, the big biotech companies sued our county, just as they do every other county and state that tries to interfere with their poisonous profiteering.

As a result of that lawsuit, on November 27 of last year, US Magistrate Judge Barry Kurren overturned the GMO ban. Judge Kurren’s reasoning was that State law pre-empts County law in this case, and that lawmakers had intended the State, not the County, to have broad control over agricultural concerns on all Hawaiian islands.

Word is that Judge Kurren’s decision is unjustified, and that he bent the interpretation of the law as widely as he could to disavow our ban. Here is Earthjustice’s lead attorney Paul Achitoff discussing the issue with Hawaii’s council members.

LOVE EXCHANGE   There are many facets of love such as compassion, kindness and respect. Above all these is gratitude. Without gratitude, love is worthless. Love has a two-sided nature, giving and receiving.

When you send someone loving thoughts, they receive them in an instant. They may suddenly feel a warm rush of energy and not know why. It is important to send loving thoughts to all of humanity. Although most do not realize what is happening, they receive the blessing anyway.

Although it may be difficult to love those who trespass against you, these are your greatest teachers, for when you can love them, it becomes much easier to love yourself and all others. Choose one person that you find very difficult to love. Keep sending this person feelings of love, releasing your judgment of his/her behaviors. Know this person was created by the same Source as you and that you are a hologramic part of each other.

Be mindful of everyone around you. Smile and send them a burst of love, no matter what your history is with each of them. Find blessings in all events.

Throughout the day, send yourself loving thoughts, feel grateful for your body and the ability to be living on Earth at this time. Practice these things until they become habits, replacing old belief codes of judgment. Go forth, enjoy this day and fill it with blessings of love and gratitude!  Selamet!  Manik 11

When you judge, you condemn. This is the long and the short of it. Judging is exclusive. In judging, you exclude someone or even a whole group from your good graces. To whatever degree, you condemn others to be excluded from your heart. You set them aside and take them out of your good-heartedness. Objecting to their actions, you would eradicate them. You object to their existence and choose to put them out of your sight, and, therefore, to your mind, they no longer exist.

This is what I mean when I say that the faults you see in others are a projection of your own thoughts. If you cannot see your projection here, let’s look at it another way.

However you see another, you put yourself right beside him. You model yourself after him.

Jefferey Jaxen, Contributor
Waking Times

Riding the full force GMO backlash of 2014, communities and individuals alike are breaking down the door with Black Friday-urgency in search of better access to better food. Yet in a country where we continue to be limited by the bottom line of big corporate influences and their overarching monetary reach, the first sprouts of a mighty paradigm shift have been peeking through the dirt waiting for everyone to notice. What I’m talking about is growing your own food.

Children Growing Own Food on Own Terms

In recent interviews, herbalist and longtime fixture in alternative agriculture Dr. Richard Alan Miller has described what he sees as proof of a shift in consciousness that is occurring in his recent work on the outskirts of Mexico City as well as in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Groups of children, varying in age, are learning to grow vegetables and salad greens on their own terms.

Luminita Saviuc, Purpose Fairy
Waking Times

If I have learned something from Socrates is that you cannot teach people anything; you can only make them think. You can only draw out of them the wisdom which is latent within them. And by doing so, you help open their eyes, making them realize that they were born with wings and that they can fly, as high as they want to fly… 

Anyway, I gathered what I thought to be some of Socrates best quotes and compiled them into 18 life changing lessons that you might want to learn. Here they are:

1. True wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

To The Universe, your failures are never failures….just attempts at success.  Like a child learning to ride a bicycle; sometimes the desire, the balance and practice (lots of practice) needs to take place before you actually get the hang of it. ~ Creator