GM or not to GM

Tonight I was watching a regular program on one of our national tv channels, the program Ear To The Ground focuses on rural and agricultural issues and tonight the featured discussion was on genetically modified food crops. Sadly I didn’t find it a balanced piece, i thought that it was slanted in favour of GM,…

The Emperors New Clothes

I just had to post about this – is the new emperor (elect) wearing the same suit of clothes? The following paragraph is an excerpt from a email newsletter from the OCA, an American Organic Consumers Association – Over the past month, the Organic Consumers Association (OCA) has been alerting our nationwide network about Obama’s…

Happy New Year

Blian NĂșa Shona Dhuit – Happy New Year to you and those you love. My global wish (hey, why not be ambitious?) is that we all learn to prioritise the truly important things in life and concentrate less on the superficial and commercial. I had a lovely break over the Christmas, didn’t even check my…

Freely Given Music

Who wants some beautiful free music for Christmas? The music website Jamendo is giving away a Christmas playlist to all who want it. It is a cool website where you can download or listen to music freely given by the performer! This is not illegally downloadable music – the performers put their music here for…