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Stephen Fox
New Millennium Fine Art
121 W. San Francisco St.
Santa Fe, New Mexico 87501
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Early in the 2016 Primary campaign, I started a Facebook group: Bernie Sanders: Advice and Strategies to Help Him Win! As the primary season advanced, we shifted the focus to advancing Bernie's legislation in the Senate, particularly the most critical one, to protect Oak Flat, sacred to the San Carlos Apaches, in the Tonto National Forest, from John McCain's efforts to privatize this national forest and turn it over to Rio Tinto Mining, an Australian mining company whose record by comparison makes Monsanto look like altar boys, to be developed as North America's largest copper mine. This is monstrous and despicable, and yet only Bernie's Save Oak Flat Act (S2242) stands in the way of this diabolical plan.
We added "2020" to the title.
I am an art gallery owner in Santa Fe since 1980 selling Native American painting and NM landscapes, specializing in modern Native Ledger Art.
I have always been intensely involved in politics, going back to the mid's 1970's, being a volunteer lobbyist in the US Senate for the Secretary General of the United Nations, then a "snowball-in-hell" campaign for US Senate in NM in the late 70's, and for the past 20 years have worked extensively to pressure the FDA to rescind its approval for aspartame, the neurotoxic artificial sweetener metabolized as formaldehyde. This may be becoming a reality to an extent in California, which, under Proposition 65, is considering requiring a mandatory Carcinogen label on all aspartame products, although all bureaucracies seem to stall under any kind of corporate pressure.
Bills to ban aspartame were in the State Senates of New Mexico and Hawaii, but were shut down by corporate lobbyists (particularly Monsanto lobbyists in Hawaii and Coca Cola lobbyists in New Mexico).
For several years, I was the editor of New Mexico Sun News, and my letters to the editor and op/eds in 2016 have appeared in NM, California, Wisconsin, New York, Maryland, the Christian Science Monitor, USA Today, and many international papers, on the subject of consumer protection. Our best issue was 10 days before Obama won in 2008, when we published a special early edition of the paper declaring that Obama Wins! This was the top story on CNN for many hours, way back then....
My highest accomplishments thus far are
1. a plan to create a UN Secretary General's Pandemic Board of Inquiry, a plan that is in the works and might be achieved even before the 75th UN General Assembly in September 2020.
2. Now history until the needs becomes clear to the powers who run the United Nations: a UN Resolution to create a new Undersecretary General for Nutrition and Consumer Protection, strongly supported ten years ago by India and 53 cosponsoring nations, but shut down by the US Mission to the UN in 2008. To read it, google UNITED NATIONS UNDERSECRETARY GENERAL FOR NUTRITION, please.
These are not easy battles, any of them, and they require a great deal of political and journalistic focus. OpEdNews is the perfect place for those who have a lot to say, so much that they exceed the limiting capacities of their local and regional newspapers. Trying to go beyond the regional papers seems to require some kind of "inside" credentials, as if you had to be in a club of corporate-accepted writers, and if not, you are "from somewhere else," a sad state of corporate induced xenophobia that should have no place in America in 2020!
This should be a goal for every author with something current to say: breaking through yet another glass ceiling, and get your say said in editorial pages all over America. Certainly, this was a tool that was essentially ignored in 2016, and cannot be ignored in the big elections of 2020.
In my capacity as Editor of the Santa Fe Sun News, Fox interviewed Mikhail Gorbachev: http://www.prlog.org/10064349-mikhail-gorbachev
(10 comments) SHARE Sunday, April 28, 2019 Starving a Defenseless Dog Should Require Owner to Suffer 5 Times Over the Same Cruel Lethal Treatment
Don't read this story if you are too softhearted to deal with animal cruelty, or if you don't believe that defenseless animals deserve as much justice as humans do. This case's judge must nail this miscreant with the maximum sentence; maybe he will suffer five times what this dog in Ohio suffered before dying a horrible and ENTIRELY AVOIDABLE death. If you witness animal cruelty, report it to authorities before its too late...
(5 comments) SHARE Wednesday, April 24, 2019 Wall Street Journal Wins Pulitzer for Investigating Trump's Hush Money Story
What do you think of this? Please comment. My suspicions are even more aroused, and there is a bewildering amount of material to unravel.
The Wall Street Journal announced that its coverage on Donald Trump's role in hush-money payments won the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting. This marks WSJ's 38th overall Pulitzer Prize.
My journalism is sometimes about other journalism, the fascinating unfolding of huge stories.
(9 comments) SHARE Wednesday, April 17, 2019 Vietnam Bans Roundup/Glyphosate, then the Nation That Endured Agent Orange is Chastised by US Agriculture Secretary
Hoang Trung, head of Plant Protection Department under Vietnam's Ministry of Agriculture posted on the department's website that long-term exposure to herbicides and pesticides affects the environment and is severely unhealthy for those exposed. "The decision to remove herbicides containing glyphosate from the list of plant protection chemicals permitted for use in Vietnam is in accordance with international regulations."
(6 comments) SHARE Thursday, April 11, 2019 Another Take on Assange's Expulsion from Ecuador's Embassy (Statement by the President of Ecuador Lenin Moreno)
Have we passed over into the next difficult paradigm in an untenable situation which couldn't go on forever; whether his prosecution is right or wrong will be determined by courts Could he ever be vindicated judicially? I hope he can get a fair trial and that he can prevail. This statement by the President of Ecuador which is quite illuminating. I've never been good at puzzles, and this is a very difficult very large puzzle.
(1 comments) SHARE Wednesday, April 10, 2019 Tulsi Gabbard Reaches 65,000 Donors, Thus Enabling Her to Be on the Debate Stage (Her "Best Birthday Present of All!")
Tulsi wrote: We are succeeding because we stand strong for what the American people want and need: leadership free from corruption and warmongering, that puts people before profits; leaders who will not drag us into one regime change war after another, inflaming the new Cold War and nuclear arms race that has been and will continue to drain trillions of dollars from our economy and threaten our communities, nation, and planet.
(2 comments) SHARE Friday, April 5, 2019 Senator Merkley of Oregon Sounds Alarm on McConnell's Senate Tricks to Ram Confirmation for Trump's Judges
Historians wondering who broke America: the answer clearly is McConnell; that's why we must fire him as majority leader, put Democrats back in charge, and then fix the Senate that McConnell and Republicans have so damaged. "It's galling that McConnell explains the change by arguing that 'Since January 2017, for the first time in memory, a minority has exploited procedure to obstruct a president staffing his administration.'"
(1 comments) SHARE Thursday, April 4, 2019 From Ditch Mitch: McConnell has Kicked in the "Nuclear Option" for Judicial Confirmations: 30 hours of Debate Cut to 2
If Democrats stalled to prevent a judicial nominee from being confirmed, Senate rules allowed Republicans to limit debate to 30 hours per nominee. This let Republicans ensure that Democrats couldn't hold up a nominee for forever, but because there is a finite amount of time that the Senate is in session, the 30 hour rule meant that there were only so many of Trump's picks that McConnell could push through; 30 now reduced to 2.
(4 comments) SHARE Wednesday, April 3, 2019 Millions of Lives Depend on Refuting and Reversing 4 Decades of FDA's Aspartame Lies---Statement By Dr. Betty Martini
FDA must stop refusing to accept a petition to ban just because they don't want to answer the facts I have provided in this email; they know it's on the market illegally as FDA's Dr. Adrian Gross told the Senate. His last words, "If the FDA violates its own law, who is left to protect the public?" If the FDA were doing its job instead of lying and denying, this global operation wouldn't exist.
(1 comments) SHARE Wednesday, March 27, 2019 From Ditch Mitch: McConnell blocked 2 votes on resolution calling for release of Muller report
What is Mitch so afraid of? What does he think is in Mueller's report that he has to hide it from the American people? Mitch is the most unpopular senator in the nation; he knows he's vulnerable enough that he could lose. Even in ruby red Kentucky, our most recent poll from last month shows that McConnell is only ahead 3 percentage points in a head-to-head match-up against a Democrat. What Mitch McConnell fears most is US!
(3 comments) SHARE Friday, March 22, 2019 Brazil's Fascist President Bolsonaro Visiting CIA Headquarters Reiterates US's Latin America Plans
Backdrop of Brazil Leader Visit: Trump, National Security Advisor John Bolton, and U.S. Envoy for Venezuela Elliot Abrams envision a region back under control of Washington but their schemes have not gone according to plan. They expected a majority of the Venezuelan army to rebel, a maximum of 0.1 percent have done so, and the majority of the world's nations have refused to recognize Washington's hand-picked president Guaido.
(12 comments) SHARE Friday, March 22, 2019 Bayer/Monsanto Stock Bombs, Takes a Well Deserved Brutal Beating; Financial Outlook is Bleak, Prognosis is Bad
"This isn't the way Bayer expected the 1st bellwether trial of the federal multi-district litigation cases to go, because this was one of the better chessboards it was facing at trial." At the end of 2018 there were 11,200 glyphosate cases in multiple districts." "It's looking as if Bayer's acquisition of Monsanto is a candidate for the pantheon of truly terrible mergers-and-acquisitions, an air of cursed inevitability."
(4 comments) SHARE Thursday, March 21, 2019 Please sign this Petition to Bring Justice In Pittsburgh for 2 Black Men Shot by Police
"Police killings are cutting the lives of Black people short. Black people are dying at the hands of police at a rate of 7.2 per million, while whites are killed at a rate of 2.9 per million -- it's no secret that police-involved shootings impact Black people at disproportionately high rates. With the acquittal of officers responsible for the murders of both Stephon Clark and Terence Crutcher, rampant violence goes unchecked."
(16 comments) SHARE Wednesday, March 20, 2019 Prepare the Funeral Dirge for Monsanto/Bayer~Unanimous Federal Jury: Roundup Weedkiller is Major Factor in Man's Cancer
The death knell for Monsanto/Bayer is getting louder; the federal jury's verdict came in Edwin Hardeman's lawsuit vs. Roundup's maker, the 2nd plaintiff to go to trial out of 1000's around the United States who maintain this weed killer caused their cancers, despite Monsanto maintaining that "Roundup's active ingredient is safe." This article focuses on videos re: Carey Gillam's 20 years of brilliant analysis and reporting.
(1 comments) SHARE Tuesday, March 19, 2019 Monsanto CA Judge Worked for Firm That Defended Monsanto's Bovine Growth Hormone; 3rd Trial starting March 25
Bovine Growth Hormone dangerous to humans & considered inhumane in causing health problems in cows~ painful udder infections, hoof problems and birth defects. To counter these issues, dairy farmers use antibiotics, which contributes to rising threat of antibiotic resistance, as explained in a report by Physicians for Social Responsibility Oregon~FDA approval in 1983 but synthetic growth hormone banned in Europe and
Canada
(14 comments) SHARE Sunday, March 17, 2019 "Hands off Venezuela" March in Washington: Background and Repercussions~Is Trump Trumping the Monroe Doctrine?
Eugene Puryear: "All over Washington any day of the week there are people eating out of garbage cans, begging for change, doing whatever they can just to survive. When they say they care about humanitarian aid, where's the humanitarian aid for thousands of homeless people in the D.C. region? They say money is more important than people and they want you to think that they're in Venezuela for some sort of humanitarian reason."
(8 comments) SHARE Friday, March 15, 2019 Reactions to Beto's Candidacy in Bernie's Largest Facebook Group, Bernie Sanders for President 2020
I've been for Bernie since Feb 2016. You must know your opponent well especially the strongest one. To not be informed is catastrophic; anyone political at any level know that; to not do so is to be BLINDSIDED. About Beto: I hold his intellect and integrity in high esteem; I worked on his 2018 Senate campaign 1200 hours; if he'd taken my advice about organizing supporters to write on Texas editorial pages, he'd have won.
(5 comments) SHARE Thursday, March 14, 2019 Absurd! (Elizabeth Warren and Robert Reich saying "Break Up" Facebook, Google, and Amazon); Regulate? Yes
But to put Facebook, Amazon, and Google on the same par as the monopolies of the early 20th Century, the big railroads and big banks, a la Cornelius Vanderbilt, John D. Rockefeller, and Jay Gould, with all of the anti-trust regulations, etc., that is an absurd draconian pie-in-the-sky knee-jerk conclusion, like throwing the baby out with the bathwater! start by asking your Congress members to shape some relevant bills.
(15 comments) SHARE Thursday, March 14, 2019 Beto O'Rourke is Running for President: "We can have a government that serves people instead of corporations."
"At this moment of truth where we could make or break our democracy, where we will decide the fate of generations to come, we must all ask what we can give to this country and to the people who will inherit the consequences of our choices. The connected crises in our economy, our democracy and our climate will either consume us or they will afford us the opportunity to demonstrate our resolve, our creativity and our courage."
(1 comments) SHARE Wednesday, March 13, 2019 Journalistic Coverage of 60th Anniversary of Tibetan Uprising Day March 10 was Internationally Thorough
This journalist composite on March 10 is very vital to me, having worked for 20 years to help obtain the release of Tibetan political prisoners. China has locked up tens of thousands in prisons all over Tibet, much like the Germans did to Jews at Auschwitz, Bergen Bergen, Treblinka, Dachau, etc. Once, in 2004, I was very successful, in coordination with Dalai Lama's office, Save Tibet International, and Amnesty International.
(3 comments) SHARE Wednesday, March 13, 2019 Sanders: Trump Budget is "Breathtaking in its Cruelty"~~~Leahy: "Dead on Arrival and Divorced from Reality"
Sanders proves WHY he is the front runner, & is backed up by longest serving US Senator, Vermont's Patrick Leahy. Pelosi dumps on impeachment; Steyer: "Is holding the President accountable for his crimes and cover-ups 'worth it?' Is doing what's right 'worth it?' Or shall America just stop fighting for our principles and do what's politically convenient?" Who can say for sure how the Senate would vote in an impeachment trial?