POLITICAL, SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC TRENDS

Under Construction 12/2011
Global Food Price Indexes Government & Private IndexMundi.com BBC World Food Price Index US Consumer Price Index Excludes Food & Energy - a Deceptive, Dangerous Joke. Each US state must have CPI. Food and Agriculture Organization G20 COUNTRIES - g20.org ASIA-PACIFIC ECONOMIC COOPERATION apec home page US Farmer's Markets. search.ams.usda.gov ... See our FOOD/WINE Domains at DomainsInTime.com Arthur Yarbrough has a degree in Journalism from the University of Texas at Austin. He was a student of economics professor Wendell Gordon, Phd. For 12 years, he worked with MODELS that blended private capital and public monies - including county governments, community action agencies & Head Start. He also was the PIO for an alternative sentencing project with an urban, District Attorney's office. Deborah and Arthur teach TIMESEED.com in central California. This free, online VILLAGE of SEERS invites you to Ask a Question. Take a CARD! See our ONLINE POKER Domains at CARDS21.com US Dept. of Justice reverses position - now"ONLINE POKER is LEGAL". American players urge support of HR 2366. See DOJ memo here - 12-23-2011 theppa.org/press-releases ... Thanks to Lewis Carrol for his parody - ALICE IN WONDERLAND and the creation of WHITE RABBIT. LINKS - coming in early 2012	January 23, 2012 YEAR OF WATER DRAGON BEGINS Deborah and Arthur will be hopping down the Hot Springs trail in CA,AZ,NM. Arthur is 72, born in 1940 - a dragon year. We are taking some time to relax, reflect and heal ourselves from 7 years of intense work with media/design/research. WE ARE SELLING FOODPRICEINDEX.com/ net/org/mobi as a package. Domain names only - no content. Email - arthur@domainsintime.com Arthur Selects News & Research Impacting Global Food Prices Chinese TV network to air global, feature story on Franklin Hot Springs in Paso Robles, CA. Filmed in Dec. Story to air Jan, 2012. Researchers - "in top 10 Medicinal Springs in world". franklinhotsprings.com english.cntv.cn/program People's Bank of China bans all GOLD platforms/exchanges except for Shanghai. Zhang Jianhua - cites global inflation, devalued currencies, "dangerous exposure to US dollar". Read "official notice" in 12-27-2011 forbes.com/sites/afontev... US TREASURY FAQ on Public Debt. Scary - shuffling paper on Civil Service Retirement and Disability Fund. ay - "detailed, wonky, surreal, sobering." 12-27-2011 treasurydirect.gov.govt ... China, Japan to trade currencies w/o dollar conversion. Japanese bank to issue YUAN bonds in China. NEW policies. 12-27-2011 english.cntv.cn/program ... ER'S flooded by mentally ill. In 2 years, California cut mi funds $587 million. 12-26-2011 msnbc.msn.com ... SOPA 2012 will over rule the DMCA of 1998 which enabled "safe harbor" sharing of content - like YouTube. SOPA can order ISP'S to make sites disappear to search. Due process is ended. Read Melanie Jones, analyst for International Business Times. 12-25-2011 ibtimes.com/articles/272580 SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) HR3261. Opposed by Am. Library Assoc., Google, ACLU, E-Bay, CATO, EFF, Mozilla, Open Source community, Domain owners. See arguments for and against at en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop ... In 2012, SOPA to be decided by US House Judiciary Committee. 8 Reps are from California. Links to members. 12-26-2011 judiciary.house.gov/about BI-PARTISAN MEDICARE bill by Sen. Ron Wyden and Rep. Paul Ryan. paulryan.house.gov/news ... Read WSJ 12-15-2011 on Ryan's site. wyden.senate.gov/newsroom ... Read press release on Wyden's site DOJ ruling allows online lotteries/poker. States can market together w/o federal law. 12-24-2011 msnbc.msn.com/id/45786004 SEARCH 7,222 FARMER'S Markets. 12-24-2011 search.ams.usda.gov ... See MAP: farmersmarkets.usda.gov US Farmer's Markets grow 17 percent - 2010 - 2011. TX, CO, NM - each up 38%. AUG. 5, 2011 - usda.gov.wps/portal ... Volkswagen turns off after-work e-mails for workers. Less stress. More "life". 12-23-2011 bbc.co.uk/news/technology ... FDA will NOT limit penicillin/cyclines in US livestock feed. You can comment - Fed.Reg/ 12-23-2011 wired.com/wiredscience ... SUPERBUG author lists 1951 - 2011 research - human anti-biotic resistance eating AB MEAT. USDA opens Center for Nutritional Policy - costs of feeding children. 12-22-2011 cnpp.usda.gov ... Sen. Durbin/Rep. Waxman ignore pharma SIDE EFFECTS but savage supplements. 11-22-2011 anh-usa.org/durbin-and ... Wukan - Chinese govt. returns 66 acres to farmers - will punish local corruption. 12-20-2011 bloomberg.com/news ... FDA creates complex, big money, pharma RULES to kill natural medicine companies. 12-20-2011 foxnews.com/health ... China's 485 million web users to get IPV6 addresses - planned since 2003. 12-23-2011 news.xinhuanet.com ... US DOJ now says "Online Poker is legal". Advocates support HR 2366. 12-23-2011 theppa.org/press-releases Nevada moves toward in-state online poker - pending federal legislation. 12-22-2011 online.wsj.com/article ... Canada (Bill C-180) ends 70 year monopoly over wheat/barley farmers. 12-16-2011 cbc.ca/news/canada ... Argentina limits foreign farmland buys to 15%, 2,500 acres. New land registry. 12-22-2011 hosted.ap.org/dynamic... Food shares "one-half as volatile as S&P 500". 21 times earnings v. 14. 12-22-2011 smartmoney.com/invest... Web readers want "right now" detailed content, opinion and aggregation. 12-22-2011 forbes.com/sites/realspin German car workers "collaborative, not adversarial". Earn twice US wages. 12-21-2011 forbes.com/sites/frederick ... 30,000 Chinese (Haimen) "affluent, open- minded" protest 2nd coal-fired plant. 12-21-2011 latimes.com/news ... US EPA issues rules for Coal Plant Mercury emissions. 60% now comply. 12-21-2011 businessweek.com/news... Mercury Poisoning info - MedlinePlus. Burning coal, airborne, long term effects. Source - nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus... nlm - US National Library of Medicine nih - US National Institute of Health EPA's Green Book outlines wellness- "Sustained Development" v. treatment. 12-19-2011 foxnews.com/politics ... Frack that! Maine innovators say power whole state with wind. 12-16-2011 forbes.com/anthony... Gold-Silver Bars at MF Global lose 25 percent of value 12-17-2011 barrons.com/article... Chinese farmers (Wukan) protest local officials land use/seizure policies. 12-15-2011 nytimes.com... "Too crazy to believe" - 50 economics numbers from 2011 12/20/2011 theeconomiccollapseblog.com High Fructose Corn Syrup wants to be called "corn sugar". Cane/beet object. 12-17-2011 france24.com/en... Harvard Medical School - Metabolism studies on sugars/diabetes/obesity. Jan, 2012 metabolismjournal.com... India changes to 51% FDI, retail food. 30% food rots - limited refrig/transport. 11-24-2011 france24.com/en... Bank - Wheat Prices to double in 2012. Predict - 50 Euro. banks nationalized. 12-19-2011 saxobank.com/lp/outrageous ... US HHS affordable care tells states - Design coverage for your unique needs. 12-16-2011 hhs.gov/news/press... American Public to US Congress - "Get Out - All of you!' - Pew Research. 12/15/2011 washingtonpost.com/blogs/ UK Online Food Purchase Graphs http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/ Bad Weather, better eating cause butter shortage http://edition.cnn.com/2011/12/13/world/europe/norway Food shortages worry Venezuelans http://edition.cnn.com/2011/12/13/world/americas/ Food prices: The end of cheap food http://www.economist.com/node/10252015 Pesticide Action Network http://www.panna.org/ Tainted Seafood Reaching U.S., Food Safety Experts Say http://foodsafety.news21.com/2011/imports/ Green Houses Without Walls - Innovation http://money.cnn.com/2011/08/30/technology/startups/ Chinese Report on Food Self Sufficiency http://chineseculture.about.com/library/china/ November Commodity Import Surge in China http://www.cnbc.com/id/45622248 International Monetary Fund Report on Rising food prices http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/fandd/2011/03/			YOU CAN SEARCH federal legislation by bill number, title or member. THOMAS.gov 20ll Farm Bill died along with the demise of the Congressional SuperCommittee. You can read the basics of the draft by U.S Senator Stabenow and US Senator Lucas. Sen. Stabenow to open hearings in January of 2012. 11-22-2011 sustainable agriculture.net/blog Design by Deborah & Arthur The FIRST US CONSTITUTION was the ARTICLES OF CONFEDERATION that required 9 of 13 colonies to agree before US enters into WAR. Read the wiki or the .gov overview In 2012, this would require that 35 of the 50 STATES approve foreign, military operations. The US Govt., on Christmas Day, is borrowing 42 percent of its operating costs. SANTA'S bag of "GIFTS" will be PAID FOR by our seven grandchildren. 12-25-2011 Deborah & Arthur County Government - Play a role in the selection and election of your COUNTY SUPERVISORS, DISTRICT ATTORNEY and SHERIFF. We live in San Luis Obispo County,California. In early 2012, we will post some basic info on these three LOCAL political races - including supervisor district maps & candidates. If ONE PERCENT of each county's population would devote themselves to STRUCTURAL CHANGE with positive sustainability - we can "live long and prosper". It's easier, often times, to live in a MEDIA LAND - FAR, FAR AWAY - state, national or global - than to work thru PEACE, POWER and WEALTH issues with other humans in our counties. Design by Deborah & Arthur We consider food to be any product consumed by humans that promotes physical, mental, and spiritual health. We want to PROMOTE TRADE in sustainable, LOCAL GROWN FOOD products and sustainable, local grown MEDICINAL PLANTS. In much of the developing world, medicinal plants are RESPECTED and have HIGH DEMAND. We believe that economic conditions in the world will mandate that government funded health insurance or private cooperatives provide medicine plant treatments as a LOW COST OPTION to chemical, pharmaceutical drugs. Plants provide the only medicines that are both AVAILABLE and AFFORDABLE in the developing world. This is now also true in both Europe & US as economic pressures stress lower and middle socio-economic classes. FREE TRADE means that LOCAL PEOPLE can grow and trade their own medicinal plants - such as ginseng, golden seal and others - around the planet. Here's a real world TRADE MODEL between WISCONSIN and CHINA - Ginseng Board of Wisconsin and Tongrentang a 360 year old apothecary that has served the Emperors of China - have had a trade partnership for a number of years. According to Ma Xiaosun, the apothecary will have exclusive rights to sell 400,000 pounds of Wisconsin ginseng in its 1,000 stores over 5 years. There is high demand in China for western ginseng called XIYANG SHEN. Tongrentang preserves the brand integrity of Wisconsin products sold in China. See our food related domains at DomainsInTime.com or contact arthur@domainsintime.com