Have you noticed that the United States has been hit with an explosion of Listening Sessions? These Listening Sessions are a component of the governments Strategic Communication Plan also known as an Alignment Plan. A Strategic Communication Plan is a management approach that makes use of two-way communication processes and media products to increase civil society participation in agricultural governance, establish coalitions and build consensus.

Why does the government and particularly government agencies and “partners” need a strategic communication plan?

• The World Bank recognizes strategic communication as an essential component in project planning and implementation.
• Projects that sought beneficiaries’ (Stakeholder-Partners) involvement achieved 68% success, those which didn’t, achieved 10% success. (Assessing Aid: What works, What Doesn’t and Why, 1999)

In a nutshell the Strategic Communication Plan is a tool that TRANSFORMS:

Research Into Policy

Information and education Into Behavior change

Global Agricultural Legislation Into the social norm

Conflicting interests Into Consensus

The Strategic Communication Plan is a marvelous tool. Government gets their message out and people become Partner-Putty in the hands of the Gov-Potter who will shape and mold it to their specifications. You may think you are an independent, rational thinker but when you buy-in and participate in a Lesson Session you have taken one step into enemy territory.

The USDA Position on Attendees of NAIS Listening Sessions

Take for instance the USDA. They have created these Listening Sessions to create the change that they want. They are focusing on key elements that they have been refining since those early “listening sessions” back around 2005 and 2006. They have a goal and they are rapid closing in on that goal so they want to be most attentive to the people to avoid any “unwanted surprises” in their plan to control agriculture.

Remember the early days in the NoNAIS movement when many of us got into the main stream press. Oh yes, the reporter would mention we opposed and even quoted us here and there but the main body of the text were the USDA’s “key messages” clearly letting people know what they were doing and intended to do.

The USDA Wants You to Do the Agri-Gov Rumble

These current listening sessions have been skillfully crafted to keep communication clear and focused, in the USDA’s favor, of course. Just as fishermen sets a hook on his line with some flashy distraction, so to the USDA sets a hook, to draw folks into their court by creating an opportunity to be heard and provide feedback on the National Animal Identification System, NAIS. The stifling silence from the USDA has wounded many of us who were shocked that our own government would not listen to “We the People”. We became much like an abused wife and now that the USDA has inclined their ear, in our perception, we go return to our abusive husband, to give it “one more shot” to communicate our position. The Listening Session works two-fold for the USDA. It gives them an opportunity for No NAIS’ers to enter their court and provides them with the public platform they “gave us an opportunity”. This is a brilliant strategic move in the days of “fairness doctrine”.

Just as a dancers enchant an audience with their performance, so too the USDA casts a spell over their audience with their strategic communication dance plan. Now the people are ripe for the subtle behavior change process. Through the past years the USDA has fuzzied up the lines in pulsating vacillation. Many an individual has fallen to become a causality of this war for total food control. Cunningly as a serpent the USDA will persuade people to take action for their desired outcomes. The agency will provide people in Listening Session attendance motivational information that will strike their NoNAIS activities to transform them to “willing” and consenting” stakeholders actively engaging in the Fantasy-Agri-Gov World Image that the USDA and its handlers have created. The USDA provides to tools that explains what to do and how to do it, after all it’s, so easy!

The Listening Session provides the USDA a opportunity to officially address ‘rumors’. They the also clarify objectives and plans that they desire to be public all the will a dark hidden agenda is being laid, step upon step, precept upon precept. Once again the USDA will throw the ball into the NoNAIS court and present the moral dilemma the “fairness doctrine” to offset demoralizing actions taken by the public at large. It’s true, you get a opportunity to give the USDA your two-cents but you will be rewarded by encouragement and stimulation to take the politically correct action.

USDA: from Order to Chaos

Face it folks, if you participate in the USDA Listening Sessions, or any Listening Sessions going around the country, you have been duped. You have been target and are giving up the high ground to sink in the quicksand of bureaucratic mire. The USDA talker’s have modeled themselves after the ‘good ol country doctor’ who ran Plum Island who was hired because he could sway a distrusting public to wholeheartedly support his biological warfare program, against all odds. While the USDA is using plain language at these Listening Sessions most of us on the front lines of NoNAIS have witnessed their semantic games.

The USDA is gloating over its victory over the people and toasting their successes. Most of you know that the USDA is not interested in what you have to say about NAIS and they certainly aren’t going to change their plans because you aired your opinion or statement of fact, so why go into the lion’s den so that the agency can use it for their purposes later? Do you understand that by your participation (endorsement) you become a de-facto partner or stakeholder with the USDA?

Ready to Rumba?  Here’s Your NoNAIS Challenge:

10 Minute Citizen:

The USDA’s dance plan has 5 steps for easy success, your job is to stop them in their tracks:

Identify Stakeholders…

Refuse to be a de facto stakeholder or partner

Identify Issues……

They know the issues, refuse to participate in their global agenda

Research….

Throw a monkey wrench into their research with false data, etc….

Communicate and key is to develop a RELATIONSHIP…

Refuse to *bond* with them

Evaluate and Update..

Refuse to provide them with information on our farms so that they can create a better     plan to kill our farms.

Refuse to give ground to the USDA and all agencies. Boycott all controlled Listening Sessions.

The FAZD Center’s 2009 Annual Meeting is set for June 30-July 1 at the center’s headquarters in Texas A&M University’s Research Park.

The annual meeting attracts researchers, graduate students and stakeholders from across the United States, including Puerto Rico. This year’s attendance is expected to top last year’s mark of 75 participants. Continue reading this post…

You may be the next starvation victim!

Accessed Wikipedia June 27, 2009

Picture scheduled to be deleted from the Internet

For Educational Purposes Only

Over-regulation of farms with programs such as the National Animal Identification System known as NAIS, micromanaging of agriculture, and “food safety” bills are creating a famine by design and definition.  You are the target, ‘x’ marks the spot.  Famine is a painful lack of food and much, much more.  Depending on the version you are reading there are 100 references to famine in the Scriptures.

Scripturally the Numbers Add Up to a Grievous FAMINE

The term famine in Scripture is Ra’av which comes from the Hebrew root ra’ev, to be hungry and has a gematria of 272 or (200+70+2).  Whenever you see the word ‘ra’ it isn’t going to be pretty. Continue reading this post…

Playing with pathogens in the San Francisco & Berkley backyard. When does a “bug” go live?  Only your Public-Private Partnership (PPP) knows for sure…..

Research Project: Development of Methodology for Application to Foreign Animal Disease Diagnostics, Surveillance, Detection, Control and Eradication Project Number: 1940-32000-052-07
Project Type: Nonfunded Cooperative Agreement

Start Date: Jul 01, 2008
End Date: Jun 30, 2010

Objective:
The Foot-and-Mouth Disease (FMD) lab located at the University of California, Davis is currently compiling extensive global disease surviellance data and is developing a global web-based disease surviellance system, which has resulted in the FMD BioPortal, a publically-available site. The objective of this collaboration is to expand the UC Davis FMD BioPortal and to provide epidemiological information to ARS, PIADC to aid in current FMD research.

Approach:
1. ARS, PIADC will provide sequencing data and analysis of field isolates of viruses made available through UC Davis. This data will be incorporated into the BioPortal. 2. UC Davis will provide epidemiological expertise to ARS, PIADC to further basic and applied research.

Research Project: Swine Viral Diseases Pathogenesis and Immunology

Accessed June 24, 2009

Location: Virus and Prion Diseases of Livestock

Title: Characterization of an Influenza A Virus Isolated from Pigs During an Outbreak of Respiratory Disease in Swine and People at a County Fair in the United States
Authors

Vincent, Amy
Swenson, S - USDA APHIS NVSL
Lager, Kelly
Gauger, Phillip
Loiacono, C - USDA APHIS NVSL
Zhang, Yan - ADDL, REYNOLDSBURG, OH
Submitted to: Veterinary Microbiology
Publication Type: Peer Reviewed Journal
Publication Acceptance Date: January 2, 2009
Publication Date: May 28, 2009
Citation: Vincent, A.L., Swenson, S.L., Lager, K.M., Gauger, P.C., Loiacono, C., Zhang, Y. 2009. Characterization of an Influenza A Virus Isolated from Pigs During an Outbreak of Respiratory Disease in Swine and People at a County Fair in the United States. Veterinary Microbiology. 137(1-2):51-59.

Interpretive Summary: Swine influenza virus (SIV) is one of the primary causes of respiratory disease in growing pigs and can lead to major economic losses. There is a potential for people exposed to SIV to become infected, although this event is far less common than the spread of human influenza virus from person to person. In this paper, we studied a virus from pigs that also infected 2 people during a county fair in 2007. Continue reading this post…

Here it is in black and white, SF 424 A & B of the NAIS Cooperative Agreements strike at your farm to implement ‘green’ environmental

Research Project: Development of Models and Conservation Practices for Water Quality Management and Resource Assessments

Location: Grassland Soil and Water Research Laboratory, Temple, Texas

Title: On-farm agro-economic effects of fertilizing cropland with poultry litter
Author

Harmel, Daren
Submitted to: Natural Resources Research Update (NRRU)
Publication Type: Research Technical Update
Publication Acceptance Date: June 3, 2009
Publication Date: June 3, 2009
Reprint URL: http://ars.usda.gov/Research/docs.htm?docid=15371
Citation: Harmel, R.D. 2009. On-farm agro-economic effects of fertilizing cropland with poultry litter. Natural Resources Research Update (NRRU). Update #241547)

Technical Abstract: As animal feeding operations increase in size, public and regulatory pressure is being exerted on the animal industry to develop and implement appropriate uses for the wastes produced. Continue reading this post…

And the shell game continues…..Ag can say NAIS funding is terminated when all that is happening is the shell game to secure funding from another source, in this case, the hot trend of Emergency Management.

Emergency Management Program Specialist 3

Please do NOT apply through the State e-Recruiting system. Follow application instructions on the job announcement.  Closes today, June 23, 2009

It’s fair season.  What are the regulations?

countyfairs-requirements

Desperately Needed: Free F E D E R A L Trained GPS Operator’s!  These Citizen Scientist’s will learn proper GPS use and monitoring

Accessed June 23, 2009

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FORT COLLINS - Researchers from Colorado State University are looking for members of the public to participate in a citizen science experiment, July 11-12 at CSU. As part of the experiment, volunteers will participate in a free workshop and online training where they will learn citizen scientist skills such as invasive species and plant identification, proper GPS use and monitoring protocols. Following the training, the new citizen scientists will test their skills against professionals in the field.

In this National Science Foundation-funded research experiment, CSU scientists from the university’s Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory are studying the effectiveness of different training approaches - in-person and hands-on, online training, and online multimedia presentations.

Firm wins HHS contract for new flu vaccine technology

Accessed June 23, 2009

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Notice that the government forced this company into Chapter 7 Bankruptcy,  and then awarded them the contract.  You scratch my back, I will scratch yours.  Watch the Public-Private- Partnership (PPP)  ball, bounce, bounce, bounce.

Robert Roos * News Editor

Jun 23, 2009 (CIDRAP News) - The US government has granted Protein Sciences Corp. (PSC) of Meriden, Conn., a $35 million contract to develop its technique for making influenza vaccines by growing flu virus proteins in insect cells, an approach said to be faster than traditional methods.

“The technology has advanced in recent years to the point that we believe it could help meet a surge in demand for US-based vaccine for seasonal and pandemic flu,” Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said in a press release today.

PSC’s approach involves extracting a gene from a flu virus and inserting it into a baculovirus, which infects insects but not people. The recombinant baculoviruses multiply quickly in insect cells, producing many copies of the flu gene, and the cells are purified and used to make a vaccine, HHS said.

The method may make it possible to produce vaccine candidates, vaccine for clinical trials, and commercial-scale amounts of vaccine faster than with the traditional method of growing flu viruses in chicken eggs, the agency said. It said the insect cells can be frozen and stored indefinitely, contributing to faster large-scale production.

If the technology is licensed by the Food and Drug Administration, the company will be required to establish a domestic manufacturing capability. The contract calls for the company to be prepared to make a finished vaccine within 12 weeks after a pandemic onset and to make 50 million doses within 6 months after pandemic onset, according to HHS.

The contract could be extended up to 5 years at a total cost of about $147 million, HHS officials said.

PSC has said it is using its baculovirus and insect-cell technology to make a vaccine for the novel H1N1 flu virus. On Jun 15 the firm announced it had begun manufacturing the vaccine, called PanBlok, and estimated it would be able to make 100,000 doses per week.

But the vaccine, like any other, will require extensive animal and human testing and regulatory approval before it can be marketed.

The HHS contract award came a day after a report that creditors of PSC had filed a petition to force the company into bankruptcy in an effort to collect on their claims.

Bloomberg News reported that creditors filed an involuntary Chapter 7 bankruptcy petition against the company yesterday in US Bankruptcy Court in Wilmington, Del. The petition listed claims totaling $11.7 million, the story said.

Most of the debt-$11.5 million-is owed to Emergent BioSolutions Inc., Bloomberg reported. Emergent, which makes the only anthrax vaccine licensed in the United States, had agreed to buy most of PSC’s assets last year. On May 1 of this year, PSC announced it had reached a deal with Emergent that set terms for repaying a loan, terminated the 2008 asset purchase agreement, and resolved outstanding litigation.