- Recently Scientists from the fish arm of a NZ State owned enterprise. (SOE)
carried out a survey deep in the Pacific, in an area of fish migratory
paths.
The conclusion was that the fish stocks had declined by 50% in as many
years. This of course is alarming news.
That those stocks were declining, was prior knowledge. What was not known
was the extent of the decline.
The official response has been, and is, to tighten the controls on
recreational fishing. The sheriffs men have the power to confiscate the
offenders vehicles, which of course they do. They are then further punished
by punitive Court House monetary extractions. The sheeple are then fed
stories via the media of these evil people who are destroying the peoples
heritage.
However the commercial plunder continues unabated. Even the Tangata Whenua
( The Maori ) have joined the pillage.
Let it be said that there is no shortage of fish at the fishmongers. The
catch is (pardon the pun) that some of the more popular fish now cost
between $20 and $26 a Kilogram. That is Tokyo prices on a New Zealand wage.
That is an absolutely scandalous situation for an Island Nation.
The problem is two pronged. Commercial exploitation and pollution. For
example all Tuna now carry toxic loads of mercury. However it is still being
sold to an unwitting public in huge amounts, and the women's magazines are
awash with healthy Tuna Salads for the weight conscious.
Blame the victims and fleece them at the same time.
The pathos laden anecdote of wilting flowers dropped in a car park is a
potent symbol of a feckless stupidity on the part of the sheeple. But that
is how authority ..... makes wrong appear like a right !
How well I remember the stunning impact of an English spring on a grimy
industrial city. Acres of flowers cloaking the great bomb gouges of mans
stupidity. On Sundays when the city bustle had died down the air was thick
with natures hang gliding golden seed. People were not allergic to their
environment then.
I tried to carry some of those breathtaking jewels of our common Mother to
my own more immediate mother. Alas in plucking them I took a life, and fast
expiring they lay dying on the cobble stones of a city street. A tasty bonus
for passing dray horses. The flowers were not really wasted, nature
produced an abundance for people, and for the dray horse, a fresh tasty and
healing relief from the monotony of their dehydrated diet.
Anyone remember Cat Stevens ? 'Tell me, where do the children play' ......
yes where do they play ? As far as I can see its mainly in Juvenile halls
whilst dosed up to the eyeballs with baby speed (Ritalin) Once again the
victims are scapegoated.
The fish problem is the same as the herb problem. The office experts serve
the interests of commerce instead of those of the people. I must also ask
..... tell me .... where do the elk and the buffalo roam ? where do they
graze the wild herbs in season.
For it is an essential part of their diet. But alas the world is being cut
up with fences and the creatures of the earth are dying.
Pressure on the environment is not limited to people or animals, by far the
greatest toll is exacted by Scientific farming methods. Followed by
Scientific food processing. The barbarity of the method is no different to
the barbarity of orthodox medicine.
A British newspaper recently reported the story of a London based woman
biologist (soon to be pregnant men) who wanted to become pregnant. I can
remember the time, when it was only necessary for a man and a woman to look
at each other in a certain way.
However she was an informed, thoroughly modern Milly ... she had herself
tested and found that she was polluted with over 300 toxic chemicals .... I
wonder if she also took into account the horse urine hormones that she was
taking to control her fertility. I wonder will she then go onto HRT to
control her hot flushes. Or perhaps she will now take an anti depressant
which is to serve as a medical replacement for the cancer causing hormones
and go mad instead of rotting from cancer ?
America leads the world in such technology. America is suffering with land
pox which is out of control, the people are dying, the animals are dying,
the land is dying, further she then exports her problems, as do the rest of
the first world nations to the poor and deprieved .... Africa is a high
profile case where this is occurring.
When people come together in groups that is a good ..... but when they
choose the wrong master ..... that is a blot on the face of humanity. Who do
you serve ? Is it Mammon with its toxins and its instruments of repression ?
Or is it the people ?
It is a truism .... those that fail to heed the lessons of history are
doomed to repeat it ..... The French Revolution and the Statue of Liberty
are history. Even the Great Lavoiser the man who slaughtered the
Phlogistonians .... ended up with his head in a basket ..... You see
Lavoiser was a tax gatherer ...... the greatest impact of that unsavoury
part of his character was upon the people .... cake is not fit food for the
people ... they need bread. Lavoisers extra curriculum activities promoted
the cake paradigm.
Those who the Gods would destroy they first make made .... another old
truism.
Who do you serve ..... The People or Mammon ? Do you follow your own short
term cheque book gains ? or do you serve ?
Ivor Hughes
www.herbdatanz.com
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