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Edited by Ronnie Cummins

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PLANTING PEACE

Rage Against the War Machine in Washington

A vocal OCA contingent will be joining thousands of others on Sunday Feb. 19 at 12:30 pm in Washington, D.C. to march from the Lincoln Memorial to the White House under the banner of “Not one more penny for the War in Ukraine.” The March is sponsored by a new coalition, The Movement for a People’s Party (an offshoot of the Bernie Sanders campaign) and the Libertarian Party (the nation’s third largest political party, among others previously associated with former Congressman and anti-war libertarian Ron Paul).

As John Walsh reports for Global Research, the march is “in fact what much of the press would term a ‘right-left’ Coalition, spanning a spectrum broad enough to actually bring the proxy war in Ukraine to an end. Fittingly, the organizers are calling the protest ‘Rage Against the War Machine.’ With the war in Ukraine putting us the precipice of nuclear Armageddon, ‘rage’ might be considered a mild reaction.”

The 10 demands of the Feb. 19 March are: (1) Not one more penny for the War in Ukraine; (2) Negotiate Peace; (3) Stop the War Inflation; (4) Disband NATO; (5) Global Nuclear De-Escalation; (6) Slash the Pentagon Budget; (7) Abolish the CIA and the Military-Industrial Deep State; (8) Abolish War and Empire; (9) Restore Civil Liberties; (10) Free Julian Assange.

The Movement for a People’s Party was founded by Nick Brana, who previously worked with the Bernie Sanders for President campaign in 2016 as the National Political Outreach Coordinator. Kim Iversen recently interviewed Brana on the increasing grassroots desire for a new left-right populist Third Party, completely independent from corporate money and the corrupt “Uni-party” Republican and Democrat Establishment.

Watch the interview: A Movement For A Viable Third Party, A People’s Party- Nick Brana

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Renewal, Resistance, & Regeneration

The U.S. and the entire world, even as the pandemic winds down, appear to be lurching toward endless conflict, chaos, fear-mongering, and engineered (accidentally or deliberately released) pandemics. The U.S./NATO proxy war in Ukraine. Sabre rattling and the threat of war with China. The Unholy Alliance of the Pentagon, CIA, the FBI, Silicon Valley, the corporate mass media, and Big Pharma to crush dissent and cover up reckless crimes such as the U.S. destruction of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline. The massive deaths and injuries from the lockdowns and the rushed-to-market experimental “vaccines.” The ongoing madness of “gain-of function” research (which Pfizer now euphemistically calls “directed evolution”), weaponizing viruses and pathogens, under the guise of “dual use” medical/military experimentation, part of the ongoing international biological arms race.

The American body politic, for the most part, remains misinformed, exhausted, and divided, subject to ongoing fear-mongering such as the recent Chinese weather balloon hoax.

Degenerate food, farming, land use, and finance are still the norm. Politicians, from all parties, find it easier to yell at one another rather than sit down, listen to their constituents, negotiate, and find common ground. War is raging in Ukraine as well as many other nations. Poverty and suffering, exacerbated by the pandemic lockdowns, is rampant. The great web of biodiversity is unraveling. The climate is in free fall. Our children and the most vulnerable are forced to struggle harder than ever, just to survive and maintain a positive outlook.

Regeneration Now

And yet, as we never tire of repeating, there are positive signs of renewal, resistance, and Regeneration bursting out at the grassroots, from Main Street to the Middle East. OCA and our allies in the organic and natural health movement worldwide are moving forward to regenerate, not just our food, farming, environment, and climate, but our local-to-global politics and public health as well.

The overwhelming majority of people in the world, including the Chinese and the Russians, are not our enemies or adversaries. Our fellow human beings want peace, democracy, justice, meaningful work, healthy food, and a healthy environment for themselves and their families, just like we do. The overwhelming majority of the global body politic, no matter what country we live in, do not want profit-at-any-cost corporations such as Bayer/Monsanto, Syngenta, Cargill, Raytheon, BlackRock, Pfizer, Google, and Facebook, or indentured politicians such as Biden, Putin, and Xi Jinping taking away our civil rights, and dictating our food, farming, political, technology, and health choices and practices. We don’t want Bill Gates, the World Economic Forum, the military-industrial complex, Big Pharma, the CIA, and their allies the genetic engineering industry manipulating science, the media, foreign policy, and international relations.

We at OCA and Regeneration International are perennial optimists, but we need your support to stop the wars, plant the seeds of peace, and regenerate our food, health, and democracy.

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CAREY GILLAM

The Book on Toxic Chemicals & Cancer Prevention that Biden Needs to Read

Carey Gillam, renowned investigative reporter on Monsanto and the Poison Cartel, writes:

“In President Biden’s state of the union address Tuesday night, he pledged his devotion to a fierce “fight against cancer,” invoking a heart-tugging story of baby “Ava,” who started her battle with kidney cancer at the age of 1.

Biden spoke of a reignited “Cancer Moonshot” search for a cure for cancers that are impacting far too many lives, and of measures to cut healthcare costs to make treating cancer more affordable. He outlined an ambitious goal to cut cancer death rates by at least 50% in the next 25 years, and to ‘turn more cancers from death sentences to treatable diseases, provide more support for patients and their families.’

But nowhere in his lengthy prime-time address did Biden speak of working to rein in the vast, virtually unchecked, flood of environmental chemical contaminants that scientists say cause cancer.

A new book scheduled for release in May written by journalist Kristina Marusic lays out in stark terms how already-staggeringly high rates of cancer are sure to continue to climb if we don’t slash our exposure to the chemicals known to cause cancer…”

Learn more: A Book Biden Needs to Read

THE NEW MDs

Dr. Michelle Perro: Biotech Babies

Dr. Michelle Perro, long-time OCA ally and co-founder of Regeneration Health International, writes:

“Infertility, surrogacy, changing family structures, low milk production, inhospitable and toxic environments, stress, and a myriad of other factors are impacting breastfeeding babies. From the perspective of the baby biota, moms are the microbial stewardesses, passing on the collection of microorganisms that will direct much of the baby’s biology, and in particular, their immunological future. Vaginal births and breastfeeding ensure the inheritance of moms’ microbial wisdom to be passed onto the infant.

But as we are all well aware, one-third of American babies are now born via Cesarean Section. With the changing landscape of parents and pregnancies, many babies are not receiving the best source of infant nutrition, especially with a lens on the microbiota, whether from the acquisition of microorganisms from a vaginal birth and/or nursing.

However, there is some good news to be shared! Nearly one-half of US moms are still nursing six months after birth. But according to the USDA, 80% of 3-11-month-old infants are fed some formula. The addition of infant formula to the baby’s diet introduces undesirable toxicants present in many formulas such as:

Fluoride

High fructose corn syrup (Never good!)

Artificial essential fatty acids (extracted with toxic hexane)

Perchlorate (found in rocket fuel)

Glyphosate

Sadly, this is an incomplete list.”

Learn more: Biotech Babies

MATT TAIBBI

Government by Panic-Mongering

Investigative reporter Matt Taibbi reports on the recent Chinese Weather Balloon incident and how panic-mongering is the new norm:

“We may never know if it was spying, but the Chinese balloon served its purpose, feeding our political establishment’s tireless efforts to keep the public freaked out… What emergency? Doesn’t matter. Russian interference [in the 2020 Presidential election] was a good startup disaster, but you can keep changing them. The important thing is the pattern. One, declare a crisis. Two, spread panic. Three, take emergency measures. If you do this over and over, you end up with permanent crisis, permanent panic, permanent emergency rule. So long as new crises keep evoking unconscious fear and anxiety, the legitimacy of the political establishment is continuously justified.

An episode that took place over the weekend speaks directly to our leaders’ new dependence on government-by-panic. A Chinese balloon of unknown etiology drifted into American airspace, and wigs flipped from coast to coast. The episode ended in Kubrickian spoof, with one unsmiling official after another lining up to declare victory over a balloon. And nobody thought it was odd…”

Learn more: Government By Panic

STATE OF THE UNION

Distract, Divide, & Conquer

John and Nisha Whitehead write:

“Step away from the blinders that partisan politics uses to distract, divide and conquer, and you will find that we are drowning in a cesspool of problems that individually and collectively threaten our lives, liberties, prosperity and happiness.

These are not problems the politicians want to talk about, let alone address, yet we cannot afford to ignore them much longer.

Foreign interests are buying up our farmland and holding our national debt. As of 2021, foreign persons and entities owned 40.8 million acres of U.S. agricultural land, 47% of which was forestland, 29% in cropland, and 22% in pastureland. Foreign land holdings have increased by an average of 2.2 million acres per year since 2015. Foreign countries also own $7.4 trillion worth of U.S. national debt, with Japan and China ranked as our two largest foreign holders of our debt.

Corporate and governmental censorship have created digital dictators. While the “Twitter files” revealed the lengths to which the FBI has gone to monitor and censor social media content, the government has been colluding with the tech sector for some time now in order to silence its critics and target “dangerous” speech in the name of fighting so-called disinformation. The threat of being labelled “disinformation” is being used to undermine anyone who asks questions, challenges the status quo, and engages in critical thinking.

Middle- and lower-income Americans are barely keeping up. Rising costs of housing, food, gas and other necessities are presenting nearly insurmountable hurdles towards financial independence for the majority of households who are scrambling to make ends meet. Meanwhile, mounting layoffs in the tens of thousands are adding to the fiscal pain.

The government is attempting to weaponize mental health care. Increasingly, in communities across the nation, police are being empowered to forcibly detain individuals they believe might be mentally ill, even if they pose no danger to others.

World governments, including the U.S., continue to use national crises such as COVID-19 to expand their emergency powers. None are willing to relinquish these powers when the crisis passes…”

Learn more: Distract, Divide and Conquer: The Painful Truth About the State of Our Union