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From:
Of Mites and Men
Bees are a metaphor for the dangers of a global market.
by Bill McKibben July/August 2006
http://www.orionmagazine.org/pages/om/06-4om/McKibben.html
...Honey is their fuel—a bee gets about 7 million flight miles to the gallon.
Bees pollinate more than ninety fruit, vegetable, nut, and seed crops—a third of the human diet in many countries...
...the varroa mite, a microscopic parasite that can devastate a bee colony. It was, for many years, confined to regions of the world where it had long coevolved with bees, allowing them to develop a certain resistance. In the twentieth century it began to spread around the globe, however, and in the 1980s it got to Florida —no one knows quite how, but when every commodity on Earth is traded far and wide every day, such things happen. From there it infested hives the length and the breadth of the country, including those that were also being taken over by nasty hybridized African bees released by accident by Brazilian researchers. But that’s another story. Anyway, the varroa mites, following on the heels (perhaps not a very apt mite metaphor) of the less devastating but equally exotic tracheal mites, decimated all kinds of beehives, and threatened all kinds of crops. This spring almond growers in California were flying in beehives from Australia to service their $5 billion harvest. The National Academy of Sciences is apparently considering adding honeybees to the endangered species list...
...chemicals. There was a pesticide strip called Apistan for a while (“not to be used during honey flow, or when there is surplus honey present in the colony that may be removed for human consumption at a later date”), but then the mites worked up resistance to that. Next came coumaphos, described originally by extension agents as a “highly effective, but more dangerous organophosphate,” and sold under the cheerful trade name CheckMite.
... “At first the stuff works like a charm,” reports a beekeeper named Kirk Webster. “Usually we can’t even locate the few survivors. But when those survivors locate each other, they create a new generation already partly resistant to the chemical. In at least one study it was even shown that resistant mites treated with coumaphos did better than those not treated. In other words, it only took a few years for the mites to evolve in such a way that a previously deadly poison was now being used by them as a resource.”...
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CRIMINOLOGY AS LOVEMAKING: AN AFRICA CENTERED THEORY OF JUSTICE
http://www.umes.edu/cms300uploadedFiles/AJCJS/acjavol1no1agozino.pdf
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From:
Amy Hendrickson
To: beyond-oil@yahoogroups.com
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/beyond-oil
A Close Call with Catastrophe in Sweden?
http://service.spiegel.de/cache/international/0,1518,430164,00.html
8/4/6
...Swedish officials have taken half the country's nuclear power plants offline until it can ensure their safe operation...
...only thing that appears to have stopped a catastrophe is the fact that two diesel backup generators kicked in, enabling the Forsmark facility to operate at least part of its emergency cooling system. Still, for 20 minutes, workers were unable to obtain information about the condition of the reactor and they were only able to respond after 21 minutes and 41 seconds...
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International Project for a Participatory Society
http://www.zmag.org/ippsmembers.html
http://www.pitt.edu/~bjgrier/brutus.htm
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http://terry.portinga.googlepages.com/getconnected
http://anarchogeek.com
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The First Diesel Fuel Was Made From Peanut Oil
http://www.jatrophacurcas.com/history.asp
...1900 when Dr. Rudolph Diesel introduced the first diesel engine to run on peanut oil at the World exhibition at Paris...
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http://www.biodieselafrica.co.za/whatisbiodiesel.asp
...In 1991, the European Community, (EC) Proposed a 90% tax reduction for the use of biofuels, including biodiesel....
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Pfizer's Chemical/Biological Weapons Report
http://thememoryhole.org/mil/cbr/pfizer-cw.htm
"Research on New Chemical Incapacitating Agents. Part 1." By Chas. Pfizer and Co., Inc., under contract to the Army's Chemical Research and Development Laboratories, 30 June 1964
Back when the US had an openly acknowledged, offensive chemical-biological-radiological weapons program (as opposed to the secret, illegal one it has now)...many pharmaceutical and chemical corporations developed these weapons for the military...
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U.S. Military Proposes Illegal Bioweapons Research
by Russ Kick 5/10/2
http://villagevoice.com/news/0220,kick,34739,6.html
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http://www.wanttoknow.info/050504davidraygriffin
http://schema-root.org/people/political/think_tank/veteran_intelligence_professionals_for_sanity/
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http://veteransforpeace.org
http://vvaw.org
http://ivaw.net
http://mfso.org
http://gsfp.org
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From:
JFK Speech on Secret Societies and Freedom of the Press
4/27/61 to the American Newspaper Publishers Association
http://www.jfklibrary.org/Historical+Resources/Archives/Reference+Desk/Speeches/JFK/003POF03NewspaperPublishers04271961.htm
http://www.commongroundcommonsense.org/forums/lofiversion/index.php/t57729.html
http://www.infowars.com/articles/nwo/jfk_secret_society_speech.htm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LlEqtaWpKEU&search=JFK%20on%20Secret%20Societies
...there is little value in opposing the threat of a closed society by imitating its arbitrary restrictions...
...Bacon remarked on...inventions already transforming the world: the compass, gunpowder and the printing press. Now the links between the nations first forged by the compass have made us all citizens of the world, the hopes and threats of one becoming the hopes and threats of us all. In that one world's efforts to live together, the evolution of gunpowder to its ultimate limit has warned mankind of the terrible consequences of failure.
And so it is to the printing press...that we look for strength and assistance, confident that with your help man will be what he was born to be: free and independent.
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Effect of Community Gardens on Neighboring Property Values
NYU, Law and Economics Research Paper No. 06-09
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=889113
...the opening of a community garden has a statistically significant positive impact on residential properties within 1000 feet of the garden, and that the impact increases over time. We find that gardens have the greatest impact in the most disadvantaged neighborhoods. Higher quality gardens have the greatest positive impact. Finally, we find that the opening of a garden is associated with other changes in the neighborhood, such as increasing rates of homeownership, and thus may be serving as catalysts for economic redevelopment of the community...
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http://10000friends.org
http://rbnlive.com
http://urbanhike.org/newslinks.html
http://www.thunderheadalliance.org/index.asp
http://www.commongroundcommonsense.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=29936
http://www.livablecity.org
http://bike-pgh.org/links.html
http://www.paklinks.com/gs/archive/index.php/t-56630.html
http://www.marketplaceforthemind.state.pa.us
http://communitygarden.org/links.php
http://cityfarmer.org
http://pittsburghimpeachbush.org
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http://cityhigh.org
http://cityhighcrc.blogspot.com
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http://www.pitt.edu/~biohome/Dept/Frame/notableevents.htm#06HatfullHHMI
...Pitt Professor Keeps Students Digging in the Dirt...
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Plants for a Future
http://pfaf.org
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20 Mishaps That Might Have Started Accidental Nuclear War
by Alan F. Philips, M.D.
http://www.nicap.org/ncp/ncp-phillips.htm
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http://nuclearfiles.org/menu/library/links/index.htm
http://braddocc.com
http://alleghenyfront.org
http://commoncouragepress.com
http://slowfoodpgh.com
http://upmc-biosecurity.org
http://wakeupwalmart.com
http://earthtech.org/principals/puthoffbio.htm
http://vialls.com
http://geocities.com/mknemesis/omega.html
http://middleeast.org
http://aljazeera.com
http://www.padrak.com/alt/911GOODINFO.html
http://padrak.com
http://www.nidsci.org/links.php
http://neighborhoodservice.org/links.htm
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Pittsburgh Tissue Engineering Initiative
http://ptei.org
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kurzweilai.net/meme/frame.html?main=articles/arto585.html
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http://www.worldpeaceforum.ca
http://apalanet.org
http://davelippman.com
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From:
A Republic or an Empire?
by Paul Craig Roberts 7/9/6...Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in the Reagan administration...was Associate Editor of the Wall Street Journal editorial page and Contributing Editor of National Review
http://signs-of-the-times.org/signs/editorials/signs20060710_ARepublicoranEmpire.php
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article13933.htm
...With the electronic voting machines supplied by Republican firms and programmed by Republican operatives, Bush can control election results. Don't bet very heavily that Americans will regain the constitutional protections and democratic accountability that they enjoyed in the 20th century.
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Homestead: The Glory and Tragedy of an American Steel Town
by William Serrin
http://www.nyu.edu/fas/Faculty/SerrinWilliam.html
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http://www.newsfromnowhere.org.uk
http://riverbendblog.blogspot.com
http://www.antiwar.com
http://www.ratical.org
http://sustainlane.com
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From:
Ten U.S. Cities Best Prepared for an Oil Crisis
http://urbanhabitat.org/node/461
http://www.sustainlane.com/article/734/Ten+U.S.+Cities+Best+Prepared+for+an+Oil+Crisis.html
...ranked the largest 50 U.S. cities based on recent city commute practices, metro area public transportation, sprawl, traffic congestion, local food and wireless network access...many other areas that rising oil prices will affect: construction, retail goods of all types, utilities (especially in the Northeast, the one part of the nation where heating oil is used) - virtually every aspect of our economy will be hit...
New York City is the city most prepared to cope with a $100+ tank of gas. With its strong city and regional public transportation system...the only American city where people are committed to riding over driving.
..."...the best prepared city to face a nation-wide oil crisis is testament to the resiliency and strength of our infrastructure."
Boston, San Francisco, Chicago and Philadelphia also ranked high for access to public transportation and commute rates...
The top ten cities also combine strong public transportation with access to locally grown fresh food, and most...have significant access to local wireless networks for telecommuting. Philadelphia leads the largest 50 cities in the U.S. with the highest combined per capita rate of farmers markets and community gardens. A homegrown system of local farmers and gardeners could prove to be a better alternative than the current system, where food is transported an average of 1500 miles to your dinner plate...Telecommuting could be an important way for large numbers of people to work from home if gas becomes completely unavailable, as it was sometimes during the 1973-74 Oil Embargo...
Regardless of where you live, it will pay to be aware of what public transportation options are available...Beyond buying local organic food, which uses less oil-based fertilizer, and is likely to become less expensive compared with conventional long-distance transported supermarket food, you should become familiar with what you can grow and make for yourself at home. Buying locally produced and sourced goods is also a way to balance dependence on the oil-intensive global economy...
Data for these rankings covers 2002-2006 and was collected from U.S. Bureau of the Census, U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Smart Growth America, Intel Corp., Texas Mobility Study/Texas A&M, and through primary research with U.S. cities.
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http://prwatch.org
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?search=Pittsburgh
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http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Lyndon_LaRouche
...Richard Mellon-Scaife, a wealthy Pittsburgh businessman, whose tax-exempt foundation would later come under federal criminal investigation for illegally financing the arming of the Nicaraguan Contras...
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Richard_Mellon_Scaife
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http://opensecrets.org
http://www.juancole.com
http://www.quaker.org
http://earthjustice.org
