Most on line Jedi join an on line Jedi networking community to find an on line Jedi master to learn the ways of the Force, on line. Believe me when I tell you, one can learn allot on line if hungry, but learning the ways of the Force and all of the skills of a real life Jedi through one of these self proclaimed on line masters is not likely. This blog does not claim to do that either. No one should really.
But like I said, one can learn allot on line, you just have to look everywhere. This blog was set up to help Jedi learn how to detect the Sith by sharing more knowledge than the corporate media is willing to share. That "knowledge" is one of the major components that make a Jedi.
"There is no ignorance, there is knowledge"
- from the Jedi Code
And it is this component that the Grassroots Jedi Movement are contributing to the ever growing Jedi community, through this blog.
The following is an interview from last year with Jane Mayer on one of the major faces of the Dark Side, hosted by Amy Goodman. Jane Mayer wrote the book: "The Dark Side"
One Love everybody, peace and Im out, May the FORCE be with you! Jedi SlabTzu DelFuego
The Dark Side, clouds everything like a fog smelling of burning flesh and sulfur.
If you search "mass suicide India" on any of the major search engines you will find that no major corporate media outlet covered the story of 1,500 farmers pushed by Monsanto and GM to the point of committing mass suicide three days ago. Only local papers and alternative independent media sources covered it. Please go try it and see for yourself. How come you ask? Very good question. I don't have all the answers as I am only one Jedi, but as the Jedi movement grows, so will our resources and intelligence multiplying our perspectives and "knowledge" - one of the major 5 tenets of the Jedi code.
"There is no ignorance, there is knowledge"
A Jedi specializes in exposing the Dark Side, it is our job to seek out and bring the Sith to justice in an effort to defend life, peace, tranquility and democracy.
In the Star Wars saga, Senator Palpatine played off the Jedi, the Republic Senate and the Confederacy of Independent Systems Insurgency against each other by controlling the information they all received to eventually create his own Empire and execute all of the distracted Jedi through "Order 66", the Star Wars version of COINTELPRO where over 40 Black Panthers were executed by the Dark Side. I feel that our own flow of information is being extremely controlled for very extreme dark purposes that will only lead to our very own Clone Wars here on Earth - massive death and destruction in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, Palestine, Colombia, Peru, Mexico, and the Bronx. As of now, our media has crossed the line, time after time. Both conservatives and liberals alike are eating it all up.
Now for the other side of the Story ...
The tragic story that may have passed you by.
Background ...
1,500 Indian Farmers Commit Mass Suicide: Why We Are Complicit in these Deaths By Tara Lohan, AlterNet Posted on April 16, 2009, Printed on April 19, 2009 http://www.alternet.org/story/137059/
The headline has been hard to ignore. Across the world press, news media have announced that over 1,500 farmers in the Indian state of Chattisgarh committed suicide. The motive has been blamed on farmers being crippled by overwhelming debt in the face of crop failure.
The UK Independent reported:
The agricultural state of Chattisgarh was hit by falling water levels.
"The water level has gone down below 250 feet here. It used to be at 40 feet a few years ago," Shatrughan Sahu, a villager in one of the districts, told Down To Earth magazine.
"Most of the farmers here are indebted and only God can save the ones who do not have a bore well."
While many may have been shocked by these deaths, farmer suicides in India, and increasingly across the world, are not new.
In the last ten years, the problem has been reaching epidemic proportions. In one region of India alone 1,300 cotton farmers took their own lives in 2006, but the culprit cannot rest solely on a falling water table.
As the Independent article continues:
Bharatendu Prakash, from the Organic Farming Association of India, told the Press Association: "Farmers' suicides are increasing due to a vicious circle created by money lenders. They lure farmers to take money but when the crops fail, they are left with no option other than death."
But there's more to the story than that. Farmer suicides can be attributed to, "something far more modern and sinister: genetically modified crops," the UK's Daily Mail reports.
Shankara, like millions of other Indian farmers, had been promised previously unheard of harvests and income if he switched from farming with traditional seeds to planting GM seeds instead.
Beguiled by the promise of future riches, he borrowed money in order to buy the GM seeds. But when the harvests failed, he was left with spiraling debts -- and no income.
So Shankara became one of an estimated 125,000 farmers to take their own life as a result of the ruthless drive to use India as a testing ground for genetically modified crops.
And no company has been as notorious in the business as the U.S. agra-giant Monsanto. As Nancy Scola explained in a piece for AlterNet:
Here's the way it works in India. In the central region of Vidarbha, for example, Monsanto salesmen travel from village to village touting the tremendous, game-changing benefits of Bt cotton, Monsanto's genetically modified seed sold in India under the Bollgard® label. The salesmen tell farmers of the amazing yields other Vidarbha growers have enjoyed while using their products, plastering villages with posters detailing "True Stories of Farmers Who Have Sown Bt Cotton." Old-fashioned cotton seeds pale in comparison to Monsanto's patented wonder seeds, say the salesmen, as much as an average old steer is humbled by a fine Jersey cow.
Part of the trick to Bt cotton's remarkable promise, say the salesmen, is that Bollgard® was genetically engineered in the lab to contain bacillus thuringiensis, a bacterium that the company claims drastically reduces the need for pesticides. When pesticides are needed, Bt cotton plants are Roundup® Ready -- a Monsanto designation meaning that the plants can be drowned in the company's signature herbicide, none the worse for wear. (Roundup® mercilessly kills nonengineered plants.)
Sounds great, right? The catch is that Bollgard® and Roundup® cost real money. And so Vidarbha's farmers, somewhat desperate to grow the anemic profit margin that comes with raising cotton in that dry and dusty region, have rushed to both banks and local moneylenders to secure the cash needed to get on board with Monsanto. Of a $3,000 bank loan a Vidarbha farmer might take out, as much as half might go to purchasing a growing season's worth of Bt seeds.
And the same goes the next season, and the next season after that. In traditional agricultural, farmers can recycle seeds from one harvest to plant the next, or swap seeds with their neighbors at little or no cost. But when it comes to engineered seeds like Bt cotton, Monsanto owns the tiny speck of intellectual property inside each hull, and thus controls the patent. And a farmer wishing to reuse seeds from a Monsanto plant must pay to relicense them from the company each and every growing season.
The cycle of debt continues into a downward spiral. And to be sure, water problems are adding to the crisis. In this most recent instance dam construction nearby was a significant contributor. While changes in water availability may be the jumping point for some farmers in India, it has been the globalization model of agriculture hyped by companies like Monsanto and Cargill that have led farmers to the cliff in the first place.
As renown physicist and anti-globalization activist Vandana Shiva (who has also fought against big dam construction) said in an interview with Democracy Now! in 2006:
A few weeks ago, I was in Punjab. 2,800 widows of farmer suicides who have lost their land, are having to bring up children as landless workers on others' land. And yet, the system does not respond to it, because there's only one response: get Monsanto out of the seed sector--they are part of this genocide -- and ensure WTO rules are not bringing down the prices of agricultural produce in the United States, in Canada, in India, and allow trade to be honest. I don't think we need to talk about free trade and fair trade. We need to talk about honest trade. Today's trade system, especially in agriculture, is dishonest, and dishonesty has become a war against farmers. It's become a genocide.
The recent mass suicide in India should be a wake up call to the rest of the world. The industrial agriculture model is literally killing our farmers.
The Dark Side, clouds everything like a fog smelling of burning flesh and sulfur. Before and after you watch this interview of Canadian/Somalian Rapper Knaan on the other side of the story of Somalian Pirates ... consider this: Why has not anyone from the major news media networks not presented us with this information that obviously changes our perspectives completely on what is going on, in the shores of Somalia? Just what exactly does the establishment intend to accomplish by hiding this side of the story?
A Jedi specializes in exposing the Dark Side, it is our job to seek out and bring the Sith to justice by abolishing ignorance through knowledge.
"There is no ignorance, there is knowledge"
In the Star Wars saga, Senator Palpatine played off the Jedi, the Republic and Confederacy of Independent Systems against each other by controlling the information they all received to eventually create his own Empire and execute all of the war trodden distracted Jedi. I feel that our own flow of information is being extremely controlled for very extreme dark purposes that will only lead to our very own Clone Wars here on Earth - massive death and destruction. As of now, the US Military and neo-conservatives are pushing the Obama administration to bomb the pirates in their own villages ... and the People of the United States unaware of the truth are agreeing with it, both conservatives and liberals alike.
Now for the other side of the Story ...
If you want to know more on who Knaan is, check out his video featuring Chubb Rock:
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