To the best of my knowledge, the only state you are allowed to OWN land is in Texas and this must be done by obtaining a allodial title. The land you ‘think’ you own if ‘own’ your home is NOT YOURS. It belongs to the state. You are renting it from them through your taxes. It’s like paying lot rent in a mobile home park. The city/state can and will tell you what you can and cannot do, as a family discovered when the city removed the basketball hoops from their driveways. IT IS NOT YOUR LAND. It belongs to King George III. For more info: http://www.libertyforlife.com/law/law-allodial_title.htm and here it is explained from one of my favorite people on the planet, Michael Badnarik: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-BU_PqLN-ls

About the money to “pay down debt” because of how fund accounting works they can easily (and will) use the additional contributions for the stated purpose and decrease the money that is usually allocated to service the debt by a corresponding amount.

In addition to your point about the govt just issuing new debt to replace the paid-off debt they will do the following:

Lets say they have 10,000 allocated to service debt as part of the regular budget. Then a contributor comes along and gives 10,000 to go toward that same budget item. They aren’t going to pay 20,000 toward the debt. Instead they will put the contributed funds toward paying the 10,000 then take the allocated 10k and reallocate it toward something else. Any contributions will effectively increase government spending in total by exactly that amount.

This is a huge scam.

Retru is my suggestion for the certification name. Nothing on google for it. Real True food is the way I was thinking of it, or Re true, i.e. retry true certicifaction. Once you get it done I will promote the hell out of it with both my farmer friends and at the local farmers market.

Was wondering if there are any good writters out there that could write a form letter that could be emailed to Mi. We could pass that letter on to all we know and have people send it in. Maybe we could get it to go viral?

Does any one know what kind of support she is getting from her home town?

Regarding the Tilapia:

Jack you reflect my feelings on this issue perfectly.

First, I should say I’m surprised at how right the article was, although still not enough emphasis was placed on the core issue:

“Also, farmed tilapia contains a less healthful mix of fatty acids because the fish are fed…”

It’s all about how they are fed. This point cannot be stressed enough. It’s not about the particular type of fish…

The same problem exists in beef. It’s well established that grass-fed and finished beef have a better (healthier and more resembling natural) Omega-6/3 ratio. Stuffing things full of corn and grains results in lower quality meat.

I am interested in starting an aquaponics setup. However, for anyone considering doing so, if you want to really improve over industrial food you need to understand this shortcoming. I intend to provide non-grain foods to the fish that more closely resemble natural diet, such as BSF larvae, maggots, plant material (like duckweed) and anything else I find along the way. Same goes for rabbits, chickens and any other livestock: Find things you can feed them to exclude conventional corn/grain from their diets.

I’m sure some other trade group (like say farm raised catfish) will pick up on this and point to how Tilapia is “bad for you”, then try and sell you their own corn-fed fish. Most people will buy it of course, and around and around we go…

I e-mailed the @$$ Hat

Jack, great show. Quick clarification on comment regarding atrazine during the rice story; it is not gmo like LibertyLink or Roundup. Atrazine has actually been used for decades on non-gmo corn, gmo corn and even sweetcorn (most sweetcorn around our area has atrazine sprayed on it); it is actually one of the first chemical herbicides. Not saying it’s great stuff because it has it’s own issues as it often shows up in water supplies and has in the past been abused because it was cheap but it’s not a gmo like the others. Thanks Jack

LOVE the paleorganic idea! Let the clowns in the gov’t try to put their spin on THAT!
Will have the cell phone ready for Friday!

About the tick-the-boxes idea:
I remember Eliot Coleman once saying something like, “This is really a sun-run system!” when he was describing his unheated glass houses…
The idea of a system being sun run always stuck with me since then.
Maybe someone can work with that. Loved the ‘paleo’ idea, too – think that’s a great way to group what will possibly be some very divergent ideas on farming practice.
…imagine trying to define monoculture. Is that 100 lettuces in a row? Is it half an acre of barley surrounded by a diverse hedgerow? Is it single species grazing? Whew!

I like Paleorganic.

And he idea of an “organic seal of approval” has been batted around the natural foods industry for years now. I’m not sure what the holdp has been in trying to get such a seal of approval off the ground. But it’s high time it happened. And the proponents of TRUE organic food had better do it before a scheister front company for Big Agro does it for them.

Oak Park, MI Planning and Technology Director Kevin Rulkowski’s email address is krulkowski@ci.oak-park.mi.us

Jack,
You always say this community is in sync and you are right!
I was just getting ready to write you about my Roth 401k not offering a cash option and you addressed it today.
I just started my own blog, have been doing tons of research (including jackspirko.com) and got to hear your great advice today on that subject!
Thanks for the helpful info before I even had to ask 🙂

I just wanted to weigh in with my suggestion for a name that competed with “organic”.

Because all of this comes from Jack and the extended TSP community, I thought that the name “Ant-Minded” seemed appropriate. Crops grown or animals raised in an “Ant-Minded” manner will need to adhere to the following tenents:

• Commercially raised crops and Livestock are fed flora and fauna that has not been chemically or artificially enhanced in any way by Man
• Free-range conditions for fauna are required, and flora must originate from either heirloom or hybrid seeds
• Genetic engineering is prohibited (though selective husbandry and cross-pollination is allowed)
• The farmer / rancher may only culture or mix other elements of flora and fauna from its native state to assist in his or her yields (i.e. – All chemically produced and/or enhanced fertilizers and pesticides are forbidden)