Last Class/Service Learning

This last class was mostly taken over by talking about our research and how it's been going but this led to a good tangent where we discussed a lot about GMOs and eventually it made a full circle back to something from earlier in the semester in Katie Zanto's class when Jaynie brought up Stolen Harvest. I have been seeing connections a lot between my classes and life ever since I transferred up here and I really enjoy the feeling of connecting those dots and seeing connections where I previously didn't. I always enjoy the classroom because no matter what I at least learn one thing new every single session and I can't say that for all my classes. 

For my service learning, which I'll be doing next semester, Katie Zanto told me about Food Hubs in Truckee where they have a geodesic dome and are attempting to grow some food up here and also bring farm fresh food up from the foothills for distribution. I'm hoping to get a feel for how the logistics of inventory and distribution of food take place and end my service learning with some sort of procedure in the form of a pamphlet or something that can be used to inform institutions about the benefits of obtaining food locally and farm fresh and also how to go about switching to a program like Food Hubs. I've already contacted Susie and she's really excited to be getting help. Jaynie is also volunteering there and has started and Kaila is thinking about it as well.

Economic Justice

So at the end of class last week, after having discussed economic justice and watched videos and talked about current events, we were asked to write down what economic justice meant to us, but I didn't really know still so I just went with the definition that was given. I now feel that economic justice can be defined as equitable payment of any type for equal input.

We started last class watching a clip of "From First to Worst" which was interesting and got me wanting to see the entire documentary which I plan to (I have it on my list) and it was pretty astonishing how greedy the more affluent districts were, that they would just got back to match the less fortunate schools instead of distributing the surplus equally. This led to bringing up how some California Universities, but CSUs and UCs, now cost more than schools such as Harvard, Yale, Princeton, and Williams College. It's shocking to see PRIVATE schools costing less than California PUBLIC schools. This was the major thing that stuck with me from that class, even more so than our discussions of Adam Smith and his irrespective tone when speaking of the "savages" and how we don't have true capitalism, more of a crony-capitalism.

Oh ya, as of...2011 I believe it was, California spends $50,000 per inmate and $8,667 per student annually.

Education and Economy

Yesterday in class we discussed economic justice and ended up talking a lot about education and how you need to be educated to accomplish significant mobility in life. This article reminded me of that discussion as Congress is misleading the people and not giving them the proper knowledge.

Bernanke tells Congress they're too optimistic

I'll do a more complete post later

Oh ya, this is a picture I came across recently that is pretty eye opening.

The hunt begins

I did not attend class this past week because I had another assignment I had to take care of, but I have seen Betts' presentation before. She shows us how to access the databases on the school library website and shows us how to change up our keywords to get different results. She also shows us some convenient features such as being able to get it cited automatically.


I couldn't get Blogger to let me indent the lines following the first lines for the citation, sorry about that.


Barret, Mike. "Antidepressants Proven to Be Useless, Pushed on Public Anyway."Activist Post. 24 Feb. 2012. Web. 04 Apr. 2012. <http://www.activistpost.com/2012/02/antidepressants-proven-to-be-useless.html>.
This article discusses information put forth by clinical trials and the FDA stating the basic uselessness and danger of anti-depressant drugs and how they are pushed to the public anyway. It discusses the side effects these medications bring about and how the medications do less than placebos.

Group, Edward. "17 Health Benefits of Cayenne Pepper | Natural Health & Organic Living Blog." Global Healing Center. 21 June 2010. Web. 04 Apr. 2012. <http://www.globalhealingcenter.com/natural-health/benefits-of-cayenne-pepper/>. 
This is a quick article describing various health benefits of cayenne pepper throughout history and continuing today. It also links up to other articles about foods with health benefits such as açai berries. 





Kushi Institute. "Cancer & Diet Information." Kushi Institute. Web. 04 Apr. 2012. <http://www.kushiinstitute.org/html/cancer___diet.html>.
The Kushi Institte provides many sources in a database of sorts. It contains newspaper articles, journal articles, and scholarly papers all that refer to the benefits of a macro biotic diet and how it positively impacts your health.




Masci, David. "Diet and Health." CQ Researcher 23 Feb. 2001: 129-60. Web. 3 Apr. 2012.
This is a fairly lengthy scholarly article discussing both the beliefs and disbeliefs of a diet's impact on your health. 


Munsterhjelm-Ahumada, Karin. "Health Authorities Now Admit Severe Side Effects of Vaccination." Truth Theory. 26 Mar. 2012. Web. 04 Apr. 2012. <http://truththeory.com/2012/03/26/health-authorities-now-admit-severe-side-effects-of-vaccination/>.
This article discusses the severe side effects of vaccination, specifically the swine-flu (H1N1). It discusses how the mild illness was blown out of proportion and many European nations made vaccinations mandatory.


"Www.rife.org." Www.rife.org. Web. 04 Apr. 2012. <http://www.rife.org/>.
This is a website dedicated to collecting all of the information they can on Royal R. Rife who, supposedly, had created a medical machine that used electromagnetic pulses set to different frequencies to destroy varying types of bacteria, viruses, and fungi. The site has compiled newspaper articles, Rife's research papers, related patents, and more.


Silvertooth, E. W. "Special Relativity." Nature 322 (1986): 590. Web. 4 Mar. 2012. <http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v322/n6080/pdf/322590b0.pdf>.
This is a short article written by U.S. Air Force officer in which they repeated an experiment done originally in 1887 that tried to prove there is a field of energy that connects us all. The conclusion Silvertooth came to was that there was an energy field of sorts connecting. This ties along with Gregg Braden's work which I will be discussing.


"The Struggles of Aging Made Easy." Oldageequalssuccess. WordPress, 18 Mar. 2012. Web. 04 Apr. 2012. <http://oldageequalssuccess.wordpress.com/2012/03/18/the-struggles-of-aging-made-easy/>.
This short articles pulls in information from various sources such as the US Department of Health and Human Services, Harvard studies, along with other studies and articles explaining the importance of fruits and vegetables and activity.




"Suppressed Medical Discovery Dr Robert Beck Cure for Cancer and Aids." YouTube. YouTube, 05 Feb. 2011. Web. 04 Apr. 2012. <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MkiX0jJJozk>.
This is a 2-hour long video that I have not gotten around to watching yet.




Zakaria, Fareed. "How to save American Health Care." Global Public Square. Cable News Network, 26 Mar. 2012. Web. 04 Apr. 2012. <http://globalpublicsquare.blogs.cnn.com/2012/03/26/zakaria-how-to-save-american-health-care/>.
This article written by CNN correspondant goes over America's healthcare system and why it is failing due to insurance practices. He discusses how the system could possible be repaired and why the free-market system doesn't work with healthcare.