Food Alert !!! Organic food from Foodhold USA/Nature’s Promise has dead bugs, pine needles, dead worms, and pieces of glass in their spinach and salad mixes and other food

June 17, 2014 By The Golden Light Channel

Dear Friends,

I just had to report on a disturbing discovery today. At our local supermarket there is a brand which is sold by Foodhold USA (brand on box is Nature’s Promise), which is selling “organic, prewashed” lettuce and spinach mixes with things like dead bugs*, pieces of glass**, and pine needles in them. Today I was making an “Organic Baby Spinach and Spring Mix” salad and found a pine needle in the mix. This was the second one from this batch. I did a search online and people are finding things like dead bugs and broken glass in these salad mixes.

This is totally unacceptable to sell these products at over twice the price of nonorganic produce and not even have quality control, furthermore it is supposedly “prewashed” or even “triple washed”.

I have written them a letter and will publish their reply here, if any.

I will never buy this brand of lettuce/spinach again, or any other of their products.

Time to grow my own spinach/lettuce!

You may be asking yourself why I am publishing this on a blog related to higher dimensional messages and ascension or why it’s important that I found pine needles in my salad mix. Well, part of our ascension is awareness and the embracing of the unity paradigm wherein we care about the well-being of all…awareness of the truth of what is going on in our current reality, including GMOS, organic food, and our food supply in general. Also, pine needles are not the worst of what is being reported – people are finding things like broken glass and hairs in their food. We absorb energy from the food we eat. When we eat food that is not a living whole food or grown and produced in a loving, caring manner, we absorb the energy from that food. In the higher dimensions only food of the highest vibration is grown in a loving atmosphere for the good of all without the use of pesticides, GMOS, etc., and only food of the highest vibration is taken into the body.

In fact, food is not even necessary to sustain higher dimensional bodies, it is more just a pleasant sensory experience not required for survival. But in order to make the leap from where we are now to living a higher dimensional life, while we are still living in 3rd dimensional bodies, we need to release ourselves from things like GMOS, pesticides, the contamination of our food supply, food corporation dishonesty without quality control, and price gauging without an interest in the consumer, etc. This will assist us in our paradigm transition into a society of transparency, truth, the highest good of all, clean water, food and air, etc. We also need to embrace the higher dimensional concepts of unity wherein we all begin to care more about the Well-being of The All instead of the service-to-self paradigm that we have been caught in for centuries if not millennia. We can only move forward into a higher dimensional society when we have embraced understood and begun to practice unity and concern and care for the well-being of all.

-Goldenlight

**Broken Glass found in Stop & Shop brand Crescent Rolls, Flaky Butter:

http://foodhold-usa.pissedconsumer.com/broken-glass-or-clear-hard-plastic-in-crescent-roll-dough-20140310478737.html

*Dead Bug found in Foodhold USA/Nature’s Promise spinach (with photo):

http://foodhold-usa.pissedconsumer.com/dead-bug-in-my-triple-washed-baby-spinach-20140121472096.html

Foodhold USA – Hair in my Asparagus:

http://foodhold-usa.pissedconsumer.com/hair-in-my-asparagus-20130720431365.html

Dead Worms in Foodhold USA Pasta (warning this photo is quite unpleasant):

http://foodhold-usa.pissedconsumer.com/some-type-of-s-t-and-dead-worms-in-my-pasta-20130529413055.html

After reading all the above complaints, I will never buy this brand again.

You can write or call Foodhold USA at:

Foodhold USA, Inc.
8301 Professional Place
Landover, MD 20785

Toll Free Number:
888-469-4268

pine needles found in overpriced, USDA certified organic, “cold water washed” baby spinach and spring mix:

Bill requiring labeling of genetically modified foods advances in Massachusetts House

May 28, 2014 By The Golden Light Channel

Note from Goldenlight: GMO Labeling Laws are being implemented all over the country now…..thankfully!

source: http://mobile.gazettenet.com/home/11914998-108/bill-requiring-labeling-of-genetically-modified-foods-advances-in-massachusetts-house

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By RICHIE DAVIS Recorder Staff

Saturday, May 10, 2014
(Published in print: Tuesday, May 13, 2014)

After three unsuccessful attempts, legislation filed by state Rep. Ellen Story, D-Amherst, to require labeling of genetically modified foods appears close to approval in the House, following similar recent action in Vermont.

Story’s “right to know” bill, House 3996, would allow consumers to make informed decisions about the potential health effects and environmental impacts of the food they purchase. She acknowledged that even she is not convinced that genetically modified organisms, or GMOs, are necessarily harmful.

“All I’m saying is, ‘It’s reasonable for us to expect to know, when we buy something, whether it has genetically modified organisms in it,’ ” she said. “I have scientist friends whom I trust and respect on both sides of this. Some say, ‘It’s nonsense. You don’t need to waste time doing this.’ Others say, ‘It’s much too early for us to know what the long-term effects are. We should be very careful.’ Since I’m not a scientist, I’m not taking a stand, but I’m saying it’s fair to want to know.”

The legislation, which incorporates another Story bill to require labeling of genetically modified seeds — has moved on to the House Ways and Means Committee after clearing the Joint Committee on Environment, Natural Resources and Agriculture.

With 70 co-sponsors in the Legislature and support from a coalition that includes the New England Farmers Union, Massachusetts Public Interest Research Group, Seeds of Solidarity, NOFA Mass and 141 farms around the state, Story said, “This really is a grassroots effort. It’s very exciting to see how far it’s gotten this year. When it had a hearing at the Statehouse, there was standing room only. This is by far the most attention it’s gotten.”

Sarah Voiland of Red Fire Farm in Montague said, “I think it’s important to know what kind of food we’re eating and what kind of farming we’re supporting. There are a lot of questions and issues with GMOs, and having it labeled will help people make the right choices. It gives the choice to us.”

Buoyed by Vermont’s recently enacted legislation, following GMO labeling bills in Connecticut and Maine, Story said, “More and more legislators are hearing from their constituents, so there’s more and more of a push for this. As time passes, people hear about this and saying that to have a label seems reasonable.”

With only a couple more months remaining in the legislative calendar, she added, “I don’t know if there’s enough (support) to pass it. There’s a lot of opposition, mostly from Monsanto and its cohorts.”

Story said she was visited by someone on behalf of a Michigan baby-formula manufacturer who said he agreed that people should know what their baby formula contains, but added that the action should be taken at the federal instead of the state level.

“I said, ‘How much have you seen the federal government getting done recently?’ He said, ‘We couldn’t possibly send different kinds of formula to different states. It would be too costly and too difficult.’ That I didn’t buy,” Story said. “This would be much better if it were a federal decision, but since there doesn’t seem to be any chance of that, it’s one of those cases where the states say, ‘Rather than do nothing, we’re at least going to try.’ ”

Like the Connecticut and Maine legislation, the Massachusetts bill has a “trigger” mechanism allowing it to take effect only after at least five states, with an aggregate population of 20 million, pass similar laws. New York and New Jersey are now considering such legislation.

“It has a lot of hurdles yet, but we’re optimistic,” said Pat Fiero of Leverett, an organizer for MoveOn.org, which has circulated support petitions that have gathered 23,000 signatures. “We have an enormous support network, and we’d really like to get it passed this year.”

Meanwhile, Congressmen Mike Pompeo, R-Kan., and G. K. Butterfield, D-N.C., introduced federal legislation earlier this year that would create federal standards for voluntary labeling by manufacturers of foods that are free of genetically engineered ingredients, but it would also preempt any state approving GMO labeling provisions.

The Shelburne Falls-based New England Farmers Union has come out in opposition to that federal proposal and its preemption of action by states. “New England Farmers Union is in favor of requiring conspicuous, mandatory consumer labeling for foods made from or containing genetically modified organisms,” said its president, Roger Noonan. “This legislation would preempt state actions to label foods containing GMOs. … Surveys have consistently shown that consumers want more information about their food, not less.”

On the Web, www.marighttoknow.com

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Russian Lawmakers Want to Impose Criminal Penalties on those Conducting GMO Business

May 21, 2014 By The Golden Light Channel

source: http://consciouslifenews.com/russian-lawmakers-impose-criminal-penalties-conducting-gmo-business/1173541/

In an act of lucidity and light that our own country should somewhat imitate, Russian lawmakers are considering equating GMO-related activities to a terrorist act or death threat, a criminal act that Russia says deserves the punishment which killers and creators of mass ecological and human genocide deserve.

A Russian newspaper, Izvestia, writes that criminal liability will be imposed on any act that involves producing, selling, or transporting genetically modified organisms, if Russian lawmakers get their way.

A bill supporting this ideaology was submitted to the Russian State Duma lower parliament house by the Duma agrarian committee as well as the Liberal Democratic Party (LDPR) (who claimed the parliament’s bill was too mild.) Those initiating the bill suggest that criminal responsibility should be applicable to companies and government officials, but not to farmers who were convinced that GMOs were safe to grow. They believe individuals should only undergo disciplinary action, and not criminal charges.

The bill would also heavily fine companies for distorting or concealing information about the environmental impacts of GMOs. If this bill were to pass in the US, I’m sure Monsanto would go broke paying all the fines they would be subject to. They’ve paid off scientists and entire institutions, as well as our own FDA and EPA to conceal evidence about both health and environmental damage that GMOs cause. Government officials would be subject to a fine fine of 1,000-2,000 roubles, and legal entities like corporations to a fine of 10,000-20,000 roubels. Several of our Congress persons and Senators would be swimming in fines as well.

Kirill Cherkasov, the first deputy chairman of the State Duma agrarian committee, pointed out that tight regulation is needed since many GMOs have been insinuated into foreign market via the World Trade Organization. Cherkasov suggested that a package of amendments to the national laws regulating technical and economic aspects of GMO-related activities should be submitted by its autumn session.

Sometimes it seems our country has traded places with the cold war communists of days past. We may not agree with everything that Vladimir Putin does in the name of Russia, but at least he is willing to do what our President is not in the US – protect his people from genetically modified foods by keeping them out of the country.

GMOs: Good News & Bad News ~ VT Passes Monumental GMO Labeling Law & Eye Opener: Celestial Seasonings Tea Contains Pesticides and GMOs

April 21, 2014 By The Golden Light Channel

Well there’s good news and bad news on the GMO front. Vermont passed an epic GMO Labeling Law recently…..and….. I was really sad to hear this…I’ve been drinking Celestial Seasonings Tea for over 30 years (Sleepytime….used to love it)…….but just finding out today their teas contain pesticides and GMOS !!!!! Say it isn’t so !!! Well I guess I really liked their artwork the most 😉 But they do have a nice combination of teas. Extremely disappointing!!! From now on, it’s only Certified Organic tea for me. I’m so upset, I’m going to write a letter to Celestial Seasonings expressing my concern. In my humble opinion, all food should be Certified Organic and GMO-free.

Which do you want first, the good news or the bad news? We’ll get the bad news out of the way:

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http://beforeitsnews.com/health/2014/04/are-pesticides-lurking-in-your-favorite-cup-of-tea-2531224.html

Are Pesticides Lurking in Your Favorite Cup of Tea?

Tea can be amazingly beneficial for your health -and I love it! In fact, I’m such a tea lover that my friends sometimes impersonate me by holding a glass of iced tea and sipping on the beverage through a straw. It’s a classic, spot-on parody of someone who should probably drink more pure water than so much of her favorite beverage. Nonetheless, in a recent investigation after hearing about how many pesticides are used in farming, I had to assume they were being used in tea fields as well. I’ve since switched to all organic teas, shunning some of my favorite brands due to high levels of carcinogenic chemicals found in their products.

Here’s what I found:

Celestial Seasoning Teas have dangerously high pesticide residues in their tea bags. High pesticide levels were found in over 91% of samples tested, and it didn’t matter which flavor. These nasty chemicals were found in Antioxidant Max Blood Orange to Sleepytime Kids Goodnight Grape, and others. While a spokesperson from the company ensures the public that they utilize ‘a rigorous testing protocol,’ it might be time to find a new lab, and stop sourcing tea from farmers who rely heavily on pesticides. This brand also contains GMOs.

Lipton, Tetly, Twinings and other popular tea brands were full of pesticides, too. They contained bifenthrin, imidacloprid, acetamiprid, chlorfenapyr, pyridaben, acephate, dicofol and monocrotophos pesticides. And while the Health Canada Review who originally conducted this testing on different teas says you would have to drink a whole lot of it to be affected, we now know that pesticide and herbicide combinations are truly deadly. Canada’s Food Inspection Authority (CFIA) tested in 2009 and again in 2011, and still found high levels of pesticide residues in numerous tea brands.

Bigelow, Tea Forte, and Mighty Leaf all contain deceptive “natural flavors” labeling, and also contained both pesticides and GMOs.

The Republic of Tea, Teavana, Tazo, and even Yogi Tea contained pesticide residues. What would the gurus say?!

Furthermore, the tea you’re drinking may contain concerning levels of fluoride. One study which analyzed inexpensive tea bags from supermarkets including Asda, Sainsbury’s and Tesco, found that drinking the tea could push a person’s fluoride intake over the ‘daily recommended level’ and put them at a higher risk of bone and dental disease. The teas provided anywhere from 75-120% of the recommended daily intake.

Lastly, many tea companies do not source their products from responsible growers. As Davidson’s Organics, a non-pesticide using tea grower says, “the pressures have mounted as we introduced industrialized agricultural practices, added chemical fertilizers or engaged GMO practices to make the land yield more and used pesticides in the name of protection.” The results of these practices have been frightening – environmental pollution, soil erosion, and loss of biological diversity.

Since the tea I drink can either minimize or contribute to this problem, I’m only drinking 100% organic, non-GMO tea from now on. You can source Non-GMO Project Verified teas, and organic by reading labels, or buying in bulk. Numi tea is one safe brand to purchase.

http://www.examiner.com/article/dangerously-high-pesticide-levels-found-celestial-seasonings-teas

‘Dangerously high pesticide levels’ found in Celestial Seasonings teas

WITH UPDATES JULY 20, 2013 – Celestial Seasonings refuses to release pesticide report.

A scathing report on Celestial Seasonings teas and parent company Hain Celestial, shows 91% of the samples of Celestial Seasonings teas tested contained pesticides in levels that exceed U.S Federal limits.

Celestial Seasonings has denied the report and claims it has done its own testing, but refuses to release the results citing “proprietary information.”

High pesticides in 91% of samples

10 out of 11 varieties of Celestial Seasonings teas, one of the largest specialty tea manufacturers in North America, were found by an independent lab to contain excess pesticides in tea varieties from Antioxidant Max Blood Orange to Sleepytime Kids Goodnight Grape among other varieties.

READ THE FULL PESTICIDE REPORT

The tests, conducted by EuroFins, a worldwide analytic testing company, determined that many varieties of Celestial Seasonings teas contained potentially dangerous levels of multiple pesticides.

Read the full Glaucus report on Hain Celestial here. (Copies of the Eurofins pesticide test results begin on page 29, Appendix 1).

Hain Celestial responds, sort of

Celestial Seasonings through a spokesperson originally responded with a mostly cut and paste from the “values” page of their website about how they employ a “rigorous testing protocol.” Later, when their facebook page lit up with concerned consumers, CS added more.

UPDATE:

Celestial Seasonings has responded to customer inquiries based on this article on their Facebook page by saying the story “is based on a report issued by a “short seller,” an investment firm which stands to gain financially if our parent company’s stock declines.”

In my opinion this is a red herring as it distorts the fact that the report was actually created by an international independent testing lab, Eurofins, and that the short seller says they never touched the samples at any time and encourages others to test samples as well.

Celestial Seasonings, Pants on Fire?

CS further says they had their own samples tested by “the National Food Lab (NFL), an industry-leading third-party lab…NFL’s independent testing reaffirmed that Celestial Seasonings teas are safe…”

We continue to reassure you now that Celestial Seasonings teas are still…safe…quality products.”

But the National Food Lab (NFL) proudly lists Celestial Seasonings as one of its clients on its website. Saying, “somewhere along the line, we have had a hand in their success.”

The NFL declined to comment on its report, citing “confidentiality.”

Celestial Seasonings refuses to release the lab reports either, calling it “proprietary information.”

A spokesperson at the Eurofins lab where the original testing took place says, “we stand behind the results we report to our tea clients.

END UPDATE

A poor track record for Celestial Seasonings teas

Started in 1969, Celestial Seasonings was “founded on the belief that all-natural herbal teas could help people live healthier lives.”

In 2009 Kay Wright, a botanicals purchaser for the company for over 30 years, was interviewed by TLC Cooking and claimed, “we do pride ourselves all the time on being very natural. It’s company standards—not industry standards. We test absolutely everything, and not very many companies do that extensive testing.”

Can short sellers be trusted?

Glaucus Research commissioned the original report, but says it ordered the products online and never touched the samples. The tests were part of a larger report by investment company Glaucus Research, which is highly critical of Celestial Seasonings parent company Hain Celestial.

Glaucus is an investment firm that specializes in short selling. Short selling is betting money that a stock price will go down.

Glaucus would benefit from bad news about the company, but they can be sued for fraud if they knowingly put out a false report. Hain has filed no such lawsuit so far.

Untainted tainted samples of Celestial Seasonings teas

In the report, released February 21, 2013, Glaucus says, “it is important to note that at no time did we take custody of, touch or handle any of the tea samples. Rather, we had the products shipped directly to Eurofins from the Company’s website and other online retailers.”

Glaucus said it encourages others to repeat their tests. Glaucus further said, “the only way for consumers to make good food choices is if food producers are held accountable for the marketing and labeling of their products.”

So, who can you trust for actually good sustainable tea? Twinings.

A report by rankabrand.org gives an A to Twinings teas, their highest rating for sustainability.

Incidentally, Celestial Seasonings got an ‘E,’ the lowest sustainability ranking.

The list of the Celestial Seasonings teas tested

The following were the teas that were tested by Eurofins. Only the Rooibos Safari Spice turned up zero pesticides, the rest exceeded Federal safety and/or California safety limits:

-Green Tea Peach Blossom
-Green Tea Raspberry Gardens
-Authentic Green Tea
-Antioxidant Max Dragon Fruit
-Green Tea Honey Lemon Ginger
-Antioxidant Max Blackberry Pomegranate
-Antioxidant Max Blood Orange
-Sleepytime Kids Goodnight Grape
-Sleepytime Herb Teas
-English Breakfast Black K-Cup
-Rooibos Safari Spice

A better way to solve this?

Perhaps the best way to settle this, is to have a Consumer Reports or Environmental Working Group type of organization buy samples off the shelves and send them to a lab.

DISCLOSURE: I have no investment position in HAIN.

And Now onto the Good News:

Victory in Vermont: Senate Passes Bill 28-2 to Label GMOs

http://naturalsociety.com/victory-vermont-senate-passes-bill-28-2-label-gmos/

Breaking News: Vermont’s Senate has passed H.112, a bill to require mandatory labeling of foods sold in Vermont that contain genetically modified organisms (GMOs). Food manufacturers will also no longer be able to call things ‘natural’ or ‘all natural’ when they are an amalgamation of toxic chemicals, otherwise known as non-food. H.112 sets new precedence since other GMO labeling bills passed last year in Maine and Connecticut required five other states in their vicinity to pass labeling laws before theirs would go into effect.

Vermont’s labeling bill requires no ‘trigger’ for it to be enacted – a clever way that legislators and Monsanto’s lackeys were able to stall labeling in other states previously. All that is left to do to make Vermont the first state to require labeling of GMOs is for the House to agree to the Senate’s amendments and for Gov. Peter Shumlin to sign it into action.

The director of Organic Consumer’s Association commented on this huge success:

“Today’s victory in Vermont has been 20 years in the making. Ever since genetically modified crops and foods entered the U.S. food supply in the early 1990s, without adequate independent pre-market safety testing and without labels, U.S. consumers have fought to require the labeling of foods containing GMOs.

Consumer demand for mandatory labeling of GMOs spawned a national grassroots movement that has persevered despite hundreds of millions of dollars spent by the biotech and food industries to lobby state lawmakers in Vermont, and to fund anti-labeling campaigns in California (2012) and Washington State (2013).”

Vermont is making it clear to Monsanto, and huge corporations that are influenced by biotech that they can’t ignore consumer rights to know what is in their food. It doesn’t matter how much money you spend, Monsanto executives; in the end you’ll wish you’d just bought a villa in Rome or taken a long vacation. That also goes for the CEO of Coca-Cola, and Pepsi, as well as numerous other companies who have fought labeling via the Grocery Manufacturer’s Association.This witty propaganda found on your website is a lie, GMA:

“Applying sustainable solutions in all areas of our work while continuing to deliver products that enhance consumers’ lives is a top priority for GMA and its members.”

Please. Coca-cola uses aspartame, a GMO bacteria poison. A UK label on Kraft’s Mac n Cheese admits it can cause ADHD, and often uses GMO wheat. Kellogg’s, the makers of Kashi, a supposedly healthful, ‘natural’ cereal, is full of GMOs. No wonder Kellogg’s was a big donor to the No on 37 campaign and spent $46 million fighting Proposition 37, the California ballot initiative for GMO labeling. What about another GMA member, General Mills? In an article presented by Food Business News, General Mills defends their use of GMOs, stating the World Health Organization’s talking points as if they were read straight out of a WHO propaganda notebook:

“…biotechnology shows promise to address such issues as strengthening crops against drought and extreme temperature, and delivering more nutritious food, even in poor soil conditions,” the report said. “We agree with the U.N. World Health Organization (W.H.O.) that the development of genetically modified organisms (G.M.O.s) offers the potential for increased agricultural productivity or improved nutritional value that can contribute directly to enhancing human health and development.”

United State’s citizens will not back down. We won’t be fed toxic food at will. Even if Vermont were to be sued over H.112, millions of dollars would be wasted. The law goes into effect July 1, 2016 – and you will lose, Monsanto.

http://naturalsociety.com/vermont-introduces-monumental-gmo-labeling-legislation/

Vermont Introduces Monumental GMO Labeling Legislation

Vermont has taken the initiative against Monsanto and other biotechnology corporations in launching new legislation that would require the labeling of products containing genetically modified ingredients. The bill, known as the ‘VT Right to Know Genetically Engineered Food Act’, was introduced to the Vermont House of Representatives by Representative Kate Webb of Shelburne on February 1st, 2012. The bill would require the labeling of not only products filled entirely with GMOs, but also for those partially created using GM ingredients.

Perhaps most monumental is the fact that the legislation would prohibit GMO food manufacturers from using promotional labels like “natural,” “naturally made,” “naturally grown,” “all natural,” or any words of similar import. The bill, which can be read for free online, would require strict and clear labeling on GMO-containing food items. The wording states that in the case of a raw agricultural commodity, the label ‘genetically modified’ would be clearly visible. As for processed food products, the words ‘partially produced with genetic engineering’ or ‘may be partially produced with genetic engineering’ would appear prominently on the front or back of the package.

Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture , testimony is to begin on the topic later this month.

The introduction of the legislation highlights the growing grassroots opposition against Monsanto and GMOs alike. In addition, the legislation would end phony ‘all natural’ product claims when in actuality they contain very unnatural genetically modified organisms. Just recently one consumer took legal action against major snack-maker Frito-Lay, claiming that the labeling of GMO-filled snack products as ‘all natural’ is deceptive and misleading.

VPIRG Consumer Protection Advocate Falko Schilling spoke in support of the act saying “This is a consumer right to know issue, just as we require nutritional labels on food so that shoppers can make informed choices, consumers should have the same access to information about whether their food has been genetically engineered.”

In the event this bill passes, a political awakening could occur across the nation regarding the true labeling of products filled with genetically modified ingredients.

Good things happening in Los Angeles (City of the Angels): Marianne Williamson announces run for Congress and LA set to be largest GMO-Free Zone in USA

October 25, 2013 By The Golden Light Channel

A Course in Politics: Marianne Williamson Announces Run for Congress

thanks to http://awakeningtothedivine.wordpress.com/2013/10/25/a-course-in-politics-marianne-williamson-announces-run-for-congress/

October 25, 2013

Thanks to Golden Age of Gaia.

Stephen Cook: My guess is we’ll be seeing many more spiritual people taking on prominent roles in the new governments ahead. Thanks to Amy.

By Tammy Biddle, The Huffington Post – October 24, 2013

http://tinyurl.com/mf9gs46

Marianne Williamson, beloved spiritual teacher and author of the bestselling “A Return to Love” and “Healing the Soul of America,” announced on Sunday in Los Angeles her run for the United States Congress. She’ll be running for the U.S. House of Representatives in California’s 33rd District, a seat currently held by 74-year old Democrat Henry Waxman, one of the most longstanding members of Congress. (He has held the seat for 38 years.)

While Marianne has been a lifelong Democrat, she is running this race as an Independent. “I believe that a wave of independent candidates, all committed to a huge course-correction, is necessary to turn our ship around. I feel my campaign, and most importantly my win, can help inspire such a movement,” says Marianne.

Marianne is no stranger to the needs of Americans and to the needs of our political system. For 30 years, she has worked intimately with people in crisis. From her work as a spiritual advisor and meal provider to those living with HIV/AIDS, to providing non-medical support to those living with life-challenging illnesses, to being a teacher of A Course in Miracles for those suffering from addictions, Marianne has demonstrated a long history of willingness to go into the trenches and be of service to those in greatest need.

On the political front, Marianne co-founded The Peace Alliance, promoting legislation to establish a United States Department of Peace, and she is on the Board of Directors of RESULTS, a citizens lobbying group working to create the political will to end hunger and poverty.

The problems of American politics are big. Our government has lost its ethical center; it has become commandeered by moneyed interests; and gender inequality remains huge. Rather than lead with a single legislative initiative, Marianne’s solution is big. It’s about leading with a heart consciousness and nurturing, what Martin Luther King, Jr. called, the beloved community. “Politics should not be the least heart-filled thing we do, it should be the most heart-filled thing we do,” said Marianne when she announced her candidacy to an excited full house at the Saban Theatre in Los Angeles.

Marianne’s major concern is that our American democracy is at risk. She worries that our government that is supposed to be of the people, by the people, and for the people is being replaced by government of a few of the people, by a few of the people, for a few of the people. “It’s being dismantled in front of our eyes,” she says.

As a daughter of an immigration lawyer, Marianne saw firsthand what it meant to people who had made it out of countries of terrible tyranny and suppression to make a new life in the United States. It meant everything to them. Seeing this gave Marianne a deep appreciation for the value of our democracy, in human terms. “As citizens of the United States, we are stewards of this magnificent thing called democracy,” said Marianne to an inspired crowd of over 2,000 people at the Saban Theatre. She added later: “When America does what’s right, it’s such a light on this planet.”

As Marianne shared her story on Sunday, she recalled when she began work in the AIDS community. She said that at that time, close to 30 years ago, allopathic doctors would look at her and those who were talking about holistic medicine, and the psychological, emotional and spiritual elements for healing, and just kind of pat them on the head. In other words, they weren’t taken very seriously. Today you have Harvard University with symposiums on Integrative Medicine, and oncologists who are the first ones to tell you to go to a spiritual support group. “We need that same type of holistic paradigm to occur now in the United States Congress,” said Marianne.

Marianne Williamson is an internationally acclaimed author, lecturer and thought leader. Six of her 10 published books have been New York Times Best Sellers. Four of these have been #1 New York Times Best Sellers. “We don’t just need new policies, we need a new world view,” says Marianne.

Marianne acknowledges that what she has to say will upset the current mode of operation, and that early on in the campaign, she may be mocked and minimized. But she insists that despite this, she will continue to speak the truth of her heart. America needs a huge course correction, says Marianne. “There is something that is going on that is not okay.”

My experience of Marianne is that she will bring a healing energy in through the doors of Congress that will permeate the halls, offices and meeting spaces of Capitol Hill. By nature of who she is and what she stands for, Marianne will not only be serving her constituents in Southern California, she will be serving the greater good of American democracy.

Marianne has been considering this deepening of her mission over the last year. I first heard a hint of it last October at Sister Giant, an event Marianne founded to change the conversation in American politics and to encourage women to re-envision their political possibilities. “At a certain point, it’s not enough for us to be activists from the periphery,” said Marianne.

Looks like she took her own words to heart.

Marianne hopes that her campaign will give people who haven’t participated in a congressional campaign before – particularly those who have felt sidelined or cynical about the political process – the inspiration to renew their commitment to exercise their own citizenship.

“What needs to be done now can’t be done only from the sidelines; those of us who share the values of this campaign need to stand on them, run on them and win on them. This way we’ll reclaim our democracy and help save the world,” says Marianne.

That’s why Marianne Williamson, beloved spiritual teacher and activist, is running for the United States Congress.

Waking Times: Los Angeles Set to Be Largest GMO-Free Zone in USA

thanks to http://awakeningtothedivine.wordpress.com/2013/10/25/waking-times-los-angeles-set-to-be-largest-gmo-free-zone-in-usa/

October 25, 2013

Anthony Gucciardi, Natural Society Waking Times,http://www.wakingtimes.com/2013/10/25/los-angeles-set-largest-gmo-free-zone-usa/

International outrage against Monsanto and GMOs by activists and concerned citizens at large is paying off once again. Just days after Mexico announced a complete ban on the growth of GMO corn, Los Angeles lawmakers have now gone on record in setting up Los Angeles to be the largest GMO-free region in the United States.

Specifically, L.A. politicians are responding to the call for a ban on the cultivation, sale, and even distribution of GMOs at large. In other words, an entirely ‘GMO-free’ zone. This would be one of the most powerful pieces of legislation to pass in the fight against Monsanto that has ever been seen — especially in the Monsanto-owned United States, where even the USDA has given Monsanto’s genetically modified creations special ‘speedy approval’ access to their regulation techniques.

Politicians Forced to Act

But even despite Monsanto’s tentacles being locked deep inside the political system, we are now seeing politicians who are forced into taking action by their supporters. This appears to be the case with Los Angeles City Councilmen Paul Koretz and Mitch O’Farrell, who are responsible for introducing the motion and subsequently addressing the demands of the population. And thanks to activism and the high-powered spread of information on the subject of Monsanto and GMOs, we are seeing this kind of action on a much more frequent basis.

In fact, the number of politicians now driven to fight against Monsanto in order to retain support is climbing to the point where my prediction of Monsanto’s economic downfall within the next few years may indeed become a reality thanks to enraged voters. Just look at how much information is being launched into the mainstream even in major media reports on the Los Angeles initiative, with City Councilman Kortez stating:

“A growing number of problems are being traced to GMOs,.. the evolution of ‘superbug’ insects which are growing immune to the pesticides engineered within GMO crops” and ”‘seed drift’ (for example the recent finding of GMO-pollinated wheat growing in an Oregon farmer’s field).”

These are the facts we have been telling you for years, and it is a major victory to see them now reaching millions more around the globe. If Los Angeles is able to push through the GMO ban into city wide regulation, it would be a direct blow to the beast that is Monsanto and the biotech industry at large.

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Anthony is the Editor of NaturalSociety, producer, consultant, and seeker of truth. Anthony’s work has been read by millions worldwide and is routinely featured on major alternative and mainstream news website alike, like the powerful Drudge Report, NaturalNews, Infowars, and many others. Anthony has appeared, oftentimes routinely, on programs like Russia Today (RT), The Alex Jones Show, Coast to Coast AM, and others. Anthony is also a founding member of Natural Attitude and the creator of the independent political website Storyleak