Thursday, August 30, 2007

enjoying the warmer summer

I'm planting in September; abrupt climate change is here. Expect almost wilder than imaginable weather.
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Farms Not Arms
Farmers Against War & Terror
http://thefarm.org
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http://seedmagazine.com/news/2007/05/cribsheet_10_photosynthesis.php
"...photosynthesis could temper climate change — if rainforests and oceanic ecosystems aren't destroyed..."
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http://climatefrog.blogspot.com
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Bush Makes Massive Land Purchase In Paraguay Ahead Of Expected War Crimes Charges
10/19/6
http://arizona.indymedia.org/news/2006/10/51221.php
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From:

While Baghdad Burns, Bush Buys

10/23/6

...Bush recently bought 42,000 hectares (over 100,000 acres) of land in Paraguay's northern "Chaco" region. The land sits atop huge natural gas reserves, according to sources in Asuncion. Moreover, the land deal was consummated in a dinner meeting between Bush's daughter Jenna and Paraguayan President Nicanor Duarte. Although Jenna, who was in Paraguay under the cover of a 10-day UNICEF trip to visit child welfare projects, put the Bush family seal of approval on the land deal, the actual legal papers were worked out by Bush family lawyers and business representatives. Jenna Bush is supposedly working for UNICEF in Panama City.
The Bush land is close to a new U.S. military installation, the Mariscal Estigarribia Air Base. It is also nearby a huge tract of land purchased by Sun Myung Moon that sits astride Latin America's largest water aquifer, the Guarani aquiferIsn't that cute! Little Jenna gets to represent the President of the United States in a private land purchase from a foreign country that will net him hundreds of millions on his retirement....
...Bush and the Carlyle Group are also the owners of major tracts of land along the proposed US super-highway linking Mexico and Canada, land that will be worth hundreds of millions more when the highway is completed...
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Efforts to crack down on lead paint thwarted by China, Bush Administration
by Kevin G. Hall 8/21/7
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/homepage/story/19070.html
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http://glynwood.org
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From:
Iraq's Sectarian Bloodshed 'Made in the USA'
by Erik Leaver and Raed Jarrar 8/10/6
http://alternet.org/story/40123/?comments=view&cID=175189&pID=175043
...Saddam is a tyrant but he was trained and propped up by the US until he refused to open up Iraq to American corporate interests. The US gave Saddam the green light to take Kuwait due to cross drilling into Iraqi oil resevoirs (see April Glaspie transcripts), only for Bush to have the Rendon Group to manage the spin and misinformation on the first Gulf war. The Iraq military was NOT on the Saudi border as Sec. of Defense Cheney was caught in a lie by his own people but refused to account for the fact that other eyes in the sky showed nothing on the border (see "Why We Fight").
The US and UK have had a long period (almost 100 years) in dissecting and taking apart Iraq for oil...
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history of U.S. wars based on lies
http://takeoverworld.info/pretexts.html
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http://davidsuzuki.org
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From:
The Secret History of the American Empire:
Economic Hit Men, Jackals, and the Truth About Global Corruption
by John Perkins
http://johnperkins.org
page 134
...I recalled a retired CIA agent who shared with me his version of Clinton's impeachment..."Linda Tripp was assigned to destroy a president feared as a reformer who might undermine the corporatocracy...As you know, guys like me always look for 'innocents' to do our dirty work. Less risk, no evidence. Linda found her innocent in Monica Lewinsky. She told Monica, 'Poor Bill doesn't get any TLC at home. You could do him a favor.' The rest is history."...
page 172
...SAMA (Saudi-Arabian Money-laundering Affair" changed geopolitics. It helped bring down the U.S.S.R., established the United States as an unchallenged superpower, and angered Osama bin Laden, the Saudi millionaire who would mastermind 9/11.
As I look back at it, I am amazed by the gall we had in those days. I often think about the role fate plays in our lives - fate and the way we react to it. I personally could never have taken on an assignment as complex as SAMA without the training I had received a few years earlier in Lebanon...
Chapter 31 - Manipulating Governments
page 173
During my first assignment in Indonesia, I showed my bosses that I was willing to create the inflated economic forecasts they desired. As a reward, they promoted me to chief economist (even though I held only a B.S. in Business Administration and at the time was the company's sole economist), gave me a raise, and sent me to the Middle East...
page 184-5
...The USAID man frowned. "We simply couldn't tolerate that. The world clamored for U.S. goods and Middle eastern oil. The long haul around Africa was way too costly. A bunch of corporate executives visited the White House. Ike heard them. The general took command....In essence...Uncle Sam forced Israel, Britain, and France to pull out..."...Those corporate executives, who just happened to control the defense industry along with most of the rest of the American economy, had forced the president of the United States to acquiesce to their demands. Now, less than two decades later, a government agency was spinning its revised view of history into its official talks. I was amazed...building what I was coming to understand was nothing less than the world's first secret empire...
...recalled Eisenhower's speech about the military-industrial complex...ironic...He had watched those executives gain influence over U.S. foreign policy during the Korean War...witnessed how they manipulated the press and Congress and employed the communist threat as a justification for whittling away at civil liberties..stood by as they sold technologies to the military for delivering missile-guided nuclear warheads to distant lands. But in Egypt, during the Suez crisis, he must have begun to truly fear the pact between the government, military, and corporations. He had acquiesced, yes. But deep inside, he must have seethed...
page 230-1
Chapter 43 A Jackal is Born
Jack Corbin was a teenager living in Beirut...in 1971...Africa...Among his many assignments: assassinate the president of one of that continent's most strategic countries...friendship between Jack and me that endured for years.
The son of an American corporate executive, Jack grew up with violence...in a suburb overlooking a section of Beirut, observing the scenes of life playing out far below...sometimes deadly...
...sitting on the patio of a South Florida Irish restaurant. It was 2005...Jack had just returned from Iraq, where he had completed and assignment the U.S. military was prohibited from carrying out itself...
Chapter 44 The "Non-Peoples" of Diego Garcia
...page 236
...decision was made to build a fortress - a nuclear warhead equipped airbase - on Aldabra Island, off Africa's east coast
...planners discovered that Aldabra was the breeding ground for rare giant tortoises. Fearing adverse publicity from a growing ecological movement, Washington redirected its efforts to nearby Diego Garcia...1,800 people lived there, mostly descendents of African slaves...
In a 1970 deal brokered by EHMs ["economic hit men"] and involving U.S. and British intelligence agents, London forced Diego Garcia's residents to abandon their homes. Every attempt was made to maintain secrecy. According to the BBC:
British politicians, diplomats and civil servants began a campaign - in their own words - "to maintain the pretence there were no permanent inhabitants" on the islands...
Many of the islanders were hustled across the water to neighboring Seychelles. England then leased an "unhabited" Diego Garcia to the U.S. government. In exchange, Washington offered the British an $11 million subsidy on Polaris submarine technology...
page 249
...The United States' role in the assassination of Patrice Lumumba in the Congo, our support of dictators like Jonas Savimbi in Angola, Mobutu Sese Seko and Laurent Kabila in the Congo, Abacha and Olusegun Obasanjo in Nigeria, and Samuel Doe in Liberia, as well as recent atrocities in Rwanda, the Sudan, and Liberia. Some were distressed by the failure of the Clinton administration's "African Renaissance," which most agreed was a not-so-subtle ploy to support one ruthless strongman after another. They talked at length about more recent attempts to forgive debt in many countries, of the Bush administration's deterination to craft this seemingly generous act into the latest and most subtle EHM trick to promote the rule of the corporatocracy...
Chapter 49 NGOs [non-governmental organizations]: A Stake in Keeping Africa Poor
"Are we being used?" Jenny Williams asked, referring to her work with NGOs in Africa. "Are the concepts of aid and development simply tools in the arsenal of the West, wielded not for the sake of charity but for the sake of control"...
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"Economic hit man" tells all
http://shout.net/~bigred/EMH.html
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"weather modification"
"Pure Energy System News"
http://pureenergysystems.com
http://newenergycongress.org
http://peswiki.com/energy/Directory:Bio-Energetics#Reiki
http://bestcyrano.org
http://monbiot.com/archives/2007/04/10/the-real-climate-censorship
http://cupe.ca/climatechange/Climate_change_repor
http://pesn.com/2005/09/06/9600160_Weather_Modification/#Weather%20Modification%20Information%20Act
http://pesn.com/2005/09/06/9600160_Weather_Modification/
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http://masters-of-war.org
http://youtube.com/user/avatar723
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Saturday, August 25, 2007

humility: not assuming one's opinions are correct

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From:
The Secret History of the American Empire:
Economic Hit Men, Jackals, and the Truth About Global Corruption
by John Perkins
http://johnperkins.org
page 293-5
Because of corporatocracy policies and actions...

+ The U.S. national debt (amount of money owed by the U.S. federal government to creditors who hold U.S. debt instruments), the largest in the world, reached $8.5 trillion in August 2006 or $28,500 for every U.S. citizen; it was increasing by $1.7 billion a day. A large percentage of this debt is held by central banks of Japan and China and by members of the EU, rendering us extremely vulnerable to them.

+ U.S. external debt (total public and private debt owed to non-residents repayable in foreign currency, goods, or services) is also the largest in the world, estimated at $9 trillion in 2005. (It is noteworthy that Washington uses the National and External Debts of other countries as weapons, forcing their governments to comply with corporatocracy demands or face bankruptcy, economic sanctions, and severe IMF-imposed "conditionalities"; yet the United States is the largest debtor nation in the world.)...
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http://palsolidarity.org
http://underboss.wordpress.com/page/2/
http://bradblog.com
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Let's dream together, then act

We on Earth are at a time full of danger and opportunity. Fear is causing many to be blind to the dangers, and the denial that our world is right now in mortal danger is part of the problem. Some say those of us who see the dangers are overly pessimistic. But these
deniers are the pessimistic ones - they are afraid that the problems if real are unsolvable.
They are out of the loop. We the saner Earthlings - the ones unafraid to look at the world as a whole - are already working on the problems they have yet to see. And we, having our eyes open, know better than they how many solutions for the problems are in the works if we just take hold of them. Interconnected problems such as climate change, ocean acidification, war, epidemics, poverty, agricultural instability, and loss of biodiversity are all mushrooming at this time, and so are cooperative potential solutions coming from awesome technological advances.

But we need perspective change to see the solutions.

Take hydrogen, for example. People have been debating whether or not hydrogen has potential as a solution to our addiction to polluting and increasingly expensive fossil fuels.
Start a discussion of hydrogen as a solution and you're almost sure to get bogged down with someone who sees problems with its production or can't see it as a replacement for gasoline. But hydrogen can be made and used in many ways. It can be made from some of the waste biomass we're currently causing global warming methane and carbon dioxide gases by putting in landfills. And it can be used as part of whole new strategies for manufacture and delivery of energy - from manufacturing it at solar facilities to nano-scale energy-production devices inside the human body to power heart devices . To just say "We're not set up with the infrastructure for a hydrogen economy" is the pessimist gloom-sayer's lack of imagination. With billions of humans working together we are coming up with solutions people a couple of years ago would have thought you nuts for suggesting. Look at the latest in nanotechnology, which we are already using before most people even know what it is. New technological advances are solving problems having to do with absorption and storage efficiency, affordability, rapid manufacturing, and safety of hydrogen, solar and other solutions - with whole new pathway strategies for manufacture and delivery.

For those of us still more or less comfortable and safe, the temptation to avoid thinking about the developing challenges we share is strong. But rather than allow fear to rule our actions, let's do the really productive thing - enjoy working together on the problems. Let's enjoy
imagining the details of the most outlandishly optimistic future we can conjure up. By remembering our highest hopes - including those we've come to believe are impossible - we allow ourselves to hope for a better future. Why dwell on a seemingly impossible future? Because, contrary to the current assumption that we are about to be buried in a convergence of problems on Earth, our collectively envisioning a better future is a necessary part of actually creating that better world.
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Comparison of Pennsylvania Renewable Portfolio Standard (RPS) Legislation -- Fuels / Technologies
http://www.actionpa.org/cleanenergy/comparison-tech.html
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Sunday, August 19, 2007

past and present

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"A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny."
~Alexander Solzhenitsyn
http://stopthenorthamericanunion.com/AwesomeQuotes.html
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5792753647750188322
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“For what’s the use of a house, if you haven’t got a tolerable planet to put it on?”
~Henry David Thoreau
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"Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner."
~James Bovard
http://thinkexist.com/quotation/democracy_must_be_something_more_than_two_wolves/157297.html
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http://patriotsquestion911.com
http://bedlamfarm.com
http://gulfethanolcorp.com
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"Pittsburgh is a hotbed of innovation...
http://www.imaginepittsburgh.com/imagine_info.php?cat=4&link=14
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http://linktv.org
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The New Pentagon Papers
by Karen Kwiatkowski 3/10/4
http://historyisaweapon.org/defcon1/newpenpap.html
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http://heartofdarkness.org
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Pittsburgh Climate Protection Initiative
http://pittsburghclimate.org
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http://care2.com
http://nov55.com/ovr.html
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Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies
http://maps.org
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Heffter Research Institute
http://heffter.org/pages/links.html
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http://newyouth.com/links.asp
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National Legal and Policy Center
http://nlpc.org
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International Financial Institution Watch Network
http://ifiwatchnet.org
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http://lesproductionsisca.ca/en/links.htm
http://creativecommons.org
http://greenfiles.org
http://hoptustore.com
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Oakland Business Improvement District
http://oaklandbid.org
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Community Technical Assistance Center
http://ctaconline.org
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Thursday, August 09, 2007

D.C. is in the way of progress.

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http://unitednuclear.com
http://lescarney.com
http://switch2hydrogen.com
http://paradigmresearchgroup.org
http://uri-geller.com
http://demilitarizepittsburgh.org
http://burning.typepad.com
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Scholars for 9/11 Truth
http://s911t.org
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Coalition Against Bayer Dangers
http://cbgnetwork.org/4.html
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Pittsburgh industrial history: making money without conscience
http://cbgnetwork.org/1186.html
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9/11: The Myth and the Reality
by David Ray Griffin 3/30/6
http://www.mindfully.org/Reform/2006/911-Myth-Reality-Griffin30mar06.htm
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otherworldly technology being privatized
"Fire in the Water" hydrogen "hydride machines"1979 "funding for research cut" "Linda Moulton Howe" "I have been threatened" "back-engineered non-human technologies" "holding back on them until they get the last drop of money out of oil" "The Philadelphia Experiment" "Al Bialek" "Project Rainbow"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQ-mvsVsAwI
http://theblackvault.com/wiki/index.php/Linda_Moulton_Howe
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http://agriculture.house.gov
http://plant-trees.org
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ocean acidification
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070808/ap_on_re_as/asia_dying_coral

http://www.climateimc.org/fr/breaking-news/2006/12/03/antarctica-does-acid-global-warming-ocean-acidification-and-southern-ocean

http://aragonitesource.com/
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http://blueearth.org/about/links.html
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Environmental and Energy Study Institute
http://www.eesi.org
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http://greenpeace.org/international/news/climate-study-flood
http://myspace.com/thomasmertoncenter
http://www.youtube.com/gathering4justice
http://thegatheringforjustice.org
http://myspace.com/pghgathering
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http://www.ibiblio.org/ecolandtech/alternative-energy/discussion-groups/homepowr/HOMEPOWR.TXT
...Until the early 1900s there were more battery-powered cars on the road than...
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Saturday, August 04, 2007

It's global wOrming, not global wArming.

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Visualize global worming:
http://followyourfolly.com/folly_wormbulance.html
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http://lifeboat.com/ex/quotes#911
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http://arctictalemovie.com
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update /5/14/7
Ebola-like Virus Killing Great Lakes Fish

by Linda Moulton Howe
"It is a major fish health crisis now in Wisconsin."
~Wisconsin Dept. of Natural Resources
"VHS is catastrophic certainly within the context of the Great Lakes ecosystem and the fishery resources. As a fish health problem, it is in fact catastrophic."
~Jim Winton, Ph.D., USGS Fish Health
http://earthfiles.com/news.php?ID=1240&category=Environment
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http://ourstolenfuture.org
http://otherpower.com
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National Institute for Environmental Health Sciences
http://niehs.nih.gov
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http://airamerica.com
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http://tscm.com/DeepWaterDooDoo
...
common thread in these cases are bribes, kickbacks, procurement fraud, lying to the government, cheating the public, espionage, abusing their employees, proving that they are not trust worthy...Yet, even with absolute proof of their criminal conduct, convictions of criminal conduct, admission of criminal conduct, and guilty pleas of criminal conduct they are still given billions of dollars of contracts (which they have a history of not being able to deliver)...
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Near Death Experience Research Foundation
http://nderf.org
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After Death Communication Research Foundation
http://adcrf.org
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Out of Body Experience Research Foundation
http://oberf.org
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Rising Surface Ozone Reduces Plant Growth & Adds to Global Warming
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/MediaAlerts/2007/2007072525415.html
...could have major implications for food production and global warming ...
...increasing ozone near the Earth’s surface could lead to significant reductions in regional plant production and crop yields. Surface ozone also damages plants, affecting their ability to soak up carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and accelerating global warming...
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potentially increased warming with elevated levels of surface ozone likely to suppress plant growth. ”Plants and soil are currently slowing–down global warming by storing about a quarter of human carbon dioxide emissions, but the new study suggests that this could be undermined by further increases in near-surface ozone. As a result more carbon dioxide would accumulate in the atmosphere and add to global warming... “...ozone effects on plants could double the importance of ozone increases in the lower atmosphere as a driver of climate change, so policies to limit increases in near-surface ozone must be seen as an even higher priority."
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From
Institute of Science in Society:

Terminator insects give wings to genome invaders

3/19/1
http://www.i-sis.org.uk/terminsects-pr.php
The United States Department of Agriculture has approved field release of GM pink bollworm this summer, which are made with a mobile genetic element that can jump many species...
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Philanthropy Gates Style
http://i-sis.org.uk/PhilanthropyGatesStyle.php
...Investments in oil companies outstrip grants that counteract problems caused by the companies...
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Bacteria greatly accelerate evolution by enabling “horizontal gene transfer” between species
1/31/7
http://yeschaton.org/index.php/category/bacteria/
http://physorg.com/news89292896.html
...Horizontal gene transfer (HGT) is a cross-species form of genetic transfer. It occurs when the DNA from one species is introduced into another. The idea was ridiculed when first proposed more than 50 years ago, but the advent of drug-resistant bacteria and subsequent discoveries, including the identification of a specialized protein that bacteria use to swap genes, has led to wide acceptance in recent years.
"...the majority of DNA in the genomes of some animal and plant species – including humans, mice, wheat and corn – came from HGT insertions,"...
...increases the rate of evolution by propagating favorable mutations across populations.
...importance of horizontal gene transfer...to swap whole sets of genetic code – like the genes that allow bacteria to defeat antibiotics...
Source: Rice University
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Child Rights and You
http://america.cry.org
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Julia Butterfly
From
U-Turn:
What if you woke up one morning and realized you were living the wrong life?
by Bruce Grierson 2007
http://web.mac.com/ilivehere/iWeb/U-Turn,%20A%20book%20by%20Bruce%20Grierson/Excerpt.html
...Julia Hill, an ambitious young businesswoman and part-time model...owner of her own bustling little restaurant, was making a lot of money as a consultant to the bar industry. Julia Hill’s thoughts were pretty much concerned with how things were going for Julia Hill—and the sky appeared to be the limit. Then one day as she was driving to work her Honda hatchback was rear-ended by a Ford Bronco. The crash totaled her car and sent her to the hospital with near-fatal injures that would take the better part of a year to mend.
The flat-on-her-back convalescence enforced a level of introspection...“I almost felt like an invisible person was grabbing my arm, my heart, and pulling me toward the front.”
She walked up to the microphone and set down her backpack. She said something that seemed utterly fitting for a young person in the middle of a California forest. “It’s great that there’s so much joy here. But while people are having fun at this rally, there are trees out there dying, falling to the ground, and it’s killing me.”.... A warm body was needed to occupy a tree—a 1,000-year-old forked redwood named Luna that had been marked for Pacific Lumber’s saws...on a platform 18 storeys off the ground.
Hill was told she would have to stay up there for five days: could she handle it? She said she could. The endeavor felt right at some pretty basic levels, “like the answer to a question I didn’t even know I was asking.”
The other activists soon rotated out of the tree sit. But Julia Hill stayed. And stayed.
Hill stayed in the canopy of Luna for 738 days. She stayed through two seasons of lashing winter storms, provisioned sporadically by activists on the ground—when they could penetrate the lumber company’s security perimeter. When she came down, she was a radical environmentalist and unwitting celebrity. (In the end, her efforts were something of a pyrric victory: the forest around was decimated but Luna still stands, and Pacific Lumber signed an agreement promising that she always will. Hill now works for an environmental consultancy called the Circle of Life Foundation.)
http://circleoflifefoundation.org
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