Re: [Biofuel] THE TRUTH BEHIND THE VACCINE COVER-UP
Here is a treasure trove of the fallacies of vaccination. If some weak people insist on getting vaccinated, fine. But it goes over the line when they force others to get vaccinated as well. And that is what is happening. Big Pharma wants total control of your body. And they are inducing weak politicians to make the laws necessary. http://www.shirleys-wellness-cafe.com/vaccines.htm From AAPS: The Physician's Desk Reference cites adverse reactions to the hepatitis B in less than 1 percent. However, if more than 70 million American children receive the vaccine, that means more than 700,000 children are likely to suffer adverse reactions. Children are a very low risk group for hepatitis B. Primary risk factors are dependent on lifestyle, i.e. multiple sex partners, drug abuse or an occupation with exposure to blood. Rampant conflicts of interest in the approval process has been the subject of several Congressional hearings, and a recent Congressional report concluded that the pharmaceutical industry has indeed exerted undue influence on mandatory vaccine legislation toward its own financial interests. The vaccine approval process has also been contaminated by flawed or incomplete clinical trials, and government officials have chosen to ignore negative results. For example, the CDC was forced to withdraw its recommendation of the rotavirus vaccine within one year of approval. Yet public documents obtained by AAPS show that the CDC was aware of alarmingly high intussuception rates months before the vaccine was approved and recommended. Mandatory vaccines violate the medical ethic of informed consent. A case could also be made that mandates for vaccines by school districts and legislatures is the de facto practice of medicine without a license. The CDC's own Guide to Contraindications to Childhood Vaccination warns that when assessing children's common symptoms, if any one of them is a contraindication, DO NOT VACCINATE [caps added]. And yet, under legislated mandates, the vaccines are still required. End AAPS excerpt. IMO, mandatory vaccinations are not Constitutional. We have nothing if we have no control over our own bodies against outside forces. If my home is my castle, then what is my body? Peace, D. Mindock P.S. Marilynn, thanks for this topic as it hits home to what this country is becoming. - Original Message - From: Marylynn Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: biofuel@sustainablelists.org Sent: Monday, October 16, 2006 6:19 PM Subject: Re: [Biofuel] THE TRUTH BEHIND THE VACCINE COVER-UP All those bumper stickers loudly proclaiming that Abortion Is Not A Medical Procedure has always made me wonder if the average individual actually knows that Childbirth is Not a Medical Procedure Either. Historically the midwife (mid-wiff-ery) or the village medicine woman assisted with the help of the women of the family .. but back a couple of thousand years with the rise of the church any woman with herbal knowledge was branded as a witch and disposed of .. and THEN the church got to confiscated any property she may have owned .. glory be. .. and so the present day medical profession was born .. and the medical profession will tell you all the horror stories about all the things that can go wrong in gory detail. The reality is that things can go wrong with a tooth extraction but the majority of births in the majority of countries are normal, go well and the living child is healthy. It almost sounds as if the hospital environment was a well timed hostage situation with that paper work. Perhaps it is time to reconsider finding a midwife. .. Or .. I don't have the details right now, but I believe a congresswoman (forgotten name for now) DEMANDED that the vaccine safety studies include the 3 separate non-vaccinated groups that exist here in the United States and be compare, side by side with those that have been vaccinated. .. the pharmas company have been reluctant to include them in their studies .. humm One large group is the Amish .. a Second large group is the Home Schooled .. and the Third group was a medical practice in the Illinois/Kansas area. Medical doctors who assist in your home who do not vaccinate .. wow .. you would wonder why the AMA hasn't shut those suckers down!! Mary Lynn Rev. Mary Lynn Schmidt, Ordained Minister ONE SPIRIT ONE HEART TTouch . Reiki . Pet Loss Grief Counseling . Animal Behavior Modification . Shamanic Spiritual Travel . Behavior Problems . Psionic Energy Practitioner . Radionics . Herbs . Dowsing . Nutrition . Homeopathy . Polarity . The Animal Connection Healing Modalities http://members.tripod.com/~MLSchmidt/ http://allcreatureconnections.org From: Jason Katie [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: biofuel@sustainablelists.org To: biofuel@sustainablelists.org Subject: Re: [Biofuel] THE TRUTH BEHIND THE VACCINE COVER-UP Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2006 16:14:44 -0500 it was in kansas city about a
[Biofuel] Debate over a leaching chemical heats up
BPA was found in the '30s while the search was on for synthetic estrogens. How it ended up in today's polycarbonate plasticand in cans is beyond me. Better living through chemistry? Also see: http://website.lineone.net/~mwarhurst/bisphenol.html Peace, D. Mindock Debate over a leaching chemical heats up By Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY Is it possible that a chemical's effect is in the eye of the beholder? That's the implication of a paper published this week in a prominent environmental health journal. It concerns a debate over the safety of low doses of a chemical used to make hard, clear plastics such as those found in baby bottles, food-storage containers and the lining of soda cans. [alsofound in dentistry wrt sealants and resins] When the plastic industry examines the health impact of a ubiquitous chemical called bisphenol A, everything's fine. If the government or a university funds the study, there are big problems. Those are the conclusions drawn by Frederick vom Saal, a developmental biologist at the University of Missouri who reports his findings in Environmental Health Perspectives, published by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences. Vom Saal and others seek revised risk assessments for the chemical in the light of a new research into its effects. Bisphenol A mimics the sex hormone estradiol in the body, acting "like birth control pills," says vom Saal. The body is exquisitely sensitive to sex hormones, needing only tiny amounts to trigger major changes. That's why scientists are concerned about the impact of even the extremely low levels of bisphenol A found in people. In mice and rats there is evidence that low doses of bisphenol A can cause structural damage to the brain, hyperactivity, abnormal sexual behavior, increased fat formation, early puberty and disrupted reproductive cycles. Vom Saal looked at 115 published studies concerning low-doses of bisphenol A. Overall, 94 of them reported significant effects in rats and mice, while 21 did not. Eleven of the studies were funded by chemical companies. None of those 11 found harmful effects of the chemical, which the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says is detected in 95% of all people tested. But more than 90% of the studies conducted by independent scientists not associated with the chemical industry found adverse consequences, says vom Saal. He called the disparity between the industry and government or university conclusions "stunning." Steven Hentges of the American Plastics Council counters that the article is not a research paper but a commentary "an op-ed" piece rather than a scientific paper. The real issue is the weight of evidence, he says, not the number of studies. "You can have 1,000 studies, but if they're all weak, adding up weak evidence doesn't necessarily give you strong evidence of anything," Hentges says. "Jumping to who sponsored it is a way to dodge the facts." He says that, in the view of the plastic industry, vom Saal has presented nothing new to change the conclusion that there's no cause for concern. "Government bodies worldwide have reached the conclusion that bisphenol A is not a risk to humans at very low levels." Over 6 billion tons of bisphenol A are used each year to make polycarbonate plastics, which have the useful property of not becoming brittle over time. First synthesized in 1957, the material didn't come into widespread use until the 1970s. Chemical bonds that bisphenol A forms in plastic can unravel when heated, washed or exposed to acidic foods, causing the chemical to leach into foods. "There's good evidence to show cause for concern," says Patricia Hunt, whose research found abnormalities in developing egg cells in female mice when exposed to low levels of bisphenol A. "We now know enough to know that we need to look at this stuff in great detail," she says. ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
Re: [Biofuel] Closed-Mindedness (Was Hypnosis as Anesthesia WasTestimonials as Evidence)
Also the Hunzas practice yoga, at least they used to. I wonder how they're doing these days as the ways of the western world spread everywhere. The way of life of the Hunzas and other long lived peoples show us a healthier way to live. I don't think we need to abandon technology, but we need to realize its limitations to giving us happier lives. IMO, we have too much dependence on technology with not enough wisdom used in its application. It seems nowadays technology as practised creates as many problems as it solves, thus we're getting nowhere wrt human fulfillment and evolution. Keith has the right idea, an ancient idea--stay close to the land and nature. Peace, D. Mindock - Original Message - From: Keith Addison [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: biofuel@sustainablelists.org Sent: Tuesday, October 17, 2006 6:08 PM Subject: Re: [Biofuel] Closed-Mindedness (Was Hypnosis as Anesthesia WasTestimonials as Evidence) Hi Bob Nutrition and Health, by Sir Robert McCarrison -- McCarrison's Cantor Lectures, to the Royal Society of Arts in 1936, Faber and Faber, London, 1953. After joining the Indian Medical Service in 1901 Robert McCarrison spent his early years in the Northern Frontier region investigating the legendary Hunza tribe, mountain people who lived to a vigorous old age and never got sick. He discovered why, and proved it in a series of experiments at the Nutrition Research Laboratories at Coonoor in India. It was the food they ate -- and, just as important, not just what food, but how it was grown. Unless it was grown in fertile soil, it was not health-giving food. Most doctors study disease; McCarrison had the rare opportunity to study health instead, as well as the lack of health among other races in the southern part of India subsisting on a poor diet. His findings put the fledgling science of nutrition on a whole new footing. McCarrison's Cantor Lectures describe his experiments as Director of Nutrition Research in India, the results, and the implications for health and nutrition. With photographs. Full text online at the Small Farms Library. http://journeytoforever.org/farm_library/McC/McCToC.html The Wheel of Health by G.T. Wrench, Daniel, 1938 Dr. Wrench's classic exploration of the Hunza, a mountain people renowned for their longevity and vigor. By approaching the problem of disease from the angle of a study of a perfectly healthy people, Wrench shows that health depends on environmental wholeness, of which a whole diet is the vital factor, and that a whole diet means not only the right sorts of foods, but their right cultivation as well. An examination of the agricultural technique of the most successful cultivators of East and West shows what an essential part of the wheel of health -- from man to soil, from soil to plant, from plant to man -- is the farmer's renewal and protection of the soil. Full text online. http://journeytoforever.org/farm_library/Wrench_WoH/WoHToC.html Lots more in the Small Farms Library if you care to look. http://journeytoforever.org/farm_library.html Small Farms Library - Journey to Forever Try Price, or Cleave - you'll HATE it! LOL! Especially since it's real science. Keith Howdy Terry, Terry Dyck wrote: HI Bob, The Western world has the highest rate of Cancer, Heart disease, Diabetes, Respiratory problems and other ailments in the world. oh really, and your source for these facts is? are the data age adjusted, etc. and just what other ailments are included. This is the issue I have with you and others, you make what I feel are overly broad statements as fact, without little or no support. So give me reference or two so I can draw my own conclusions. or how about just statistic at a time to discuss. How about age adjusted cancer rates? (age adjusting is necessary as cancer is essentially inevitable, the longer you live the more likely you are to get cancer. show me the data please. On the other hand there is a valley in the middle of the Himalayan mountains called Hunzaland that is an almost disease free area. I have heard this canard before. I googled hunzaland and about the only thing I got were people hawking their particular cure The Apricot Kernel Anti-Cancer Theory http://www.jesus-is-savior.com/land_of_hunza.htm or how about 160+ year olds http://www.arthritis-nature-cure.com/people.htm do really believe that? really, you don't think someone could be less than forthright to make a point about a product the promote? or maybe it's the magnetized water http://www.stopcancer.com/magnetpHFoundation2.htm A pure organic food diet and almost no pollution could be the reason for people having good health. or it could all be a bunch of hype. How do we know with out better documentation? -- Bob Allen, http://ozarker.org/bob = The modern conservative is engaged in one of Man's
Re: [Biofuel] Closed-Mindedness (Was Hypnosis as Anesthesia WasTestimonials as Evidence)
Hi Mike, I think Weston Price would say to drink raw milk. When milk is pastuerized and homogenized, it becomes harmful to the body. So those drinking less of the bad milk in the Harvard study would actually be better off. Myself, I don't drink milk unless I can get it raw and organic. Also, even better, is to add kefir culture to it. I think the Hunzas drink their milk cultured, not straight up. Peace, D. Mindock - Original Message - From: Mike Weaver [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: biofuel@sustainablelists.org Sent: Tuesday, October 17, 2006 6:12 PM Subject: Re: [Biofuel] Closed-Mindedness (Was Hypnosis as Anesthesia WasTestimonials as Evidence) From the can't-help-but-stick-my-toe-in dept. Caveat: No proof other than what I've read over the years. It has always seemed to me that the maladies that people suffer from are in large part due to environment/lifestyle. In the third world, disease is far more likely to be as a result of the lack of food and adequate nutrition, wheras in the developed world, we suffer from the diseaeses of affluence: diabetis being the one that comes to mind, along with obesity-related ailments such as heart disease, high blood pressure, strokes and so on. Smoking is another factor. Another interesting item, from Harvard University's website: In particular, these studies suggest that high calcium intake doesn't actually appear to lower a person's risk for osteoporosis. For example, in the large Harvard studies of male health professionals and female nurses, individuals who drank one glass of milk (or less) per week were at no greater risk of breaking a hip or forearm than were those who drank two or more glasses per week.(2, 3 http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/calcium.html#references) Other studies have found similar results. It is odd human beings are the only animal that develop a disease if they don't eat the milk of another species. Dogs don't need cat milk. bob allen wrote: Howdy Terry, Terry Dyck wrote: HI Bob, The Western world has the highest rate of Cancer, Heart disease, Diabetes, Respiratory problems and other ailments in the world. oh really, and your source for these facts is? are the data age adjusted, etc. and just what other ailments are included. This is the issue I have with you and others, you make what I feel are overly broad statements as fact, without little or no support. So give me reference or two so I can draw my own conclusions. or how about just statistic at a time to discuss. How about age adjusted cancer rates? (age adjusting is necessary as cancer is essentially inevitable, the longer you live the more likely you are to get cancer. show me the data please. On the other hand there is a valley in the middle of the Himalayan mountains called Hunzaland that is an almost disease free area. I have heard this canard before. I googled hunzaland and about the only thing I got were people hawking their particular cure The Apricot Kernel Anti-Cancer Theory http://www.jesus-is-savior.com/land_of_hunza.htm or how about 160+ year olds http://www.arthritis-nature-cure.com/people.htm do really believe that? really, you don't think someone could be less than forthright to make a point about a product the promote? or maybe it's the magnetized water http://www.stopcancer.com/magnetpHFoundation2.htm A pure organic food diet and almost no pollution could be the reason for people having good health. or it could all be a bunch of hype. How do we know with out better documentation? -- Bob Allen, http://ozarker.org/bob = The modern conservative is engaged in one of Man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness JKG ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
[Biofuel] Researchers Mimic Lotus Leaves For Self-cleaning PV Arrays, Non-stick MEMS
Interesting research. There are a ton of potential applications for this, regards tallex Researchers Mimic Lotus Leaves For Self-cleaning PV Arrays, Non-stick MEMS http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/medicalnews.php?newsid=54133 Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology are mimicking one of Nature's best non-stick surfaces to help create more reliable electric transmission systems, photovoltaic arrays that retain their efficiency, MEMS structures unaffected by water and improved biocompatible surfaces able to prevent cells from adhering to implanted medical devices. Based on a collaboration of materials scientists and chemical engineers, the research aims to duplicate the self-cleaning surfaces of the lotus plant, which grows in waterways of Asia. Despite growing in muddy conditions, the leaves and flowers remain clean because their surfaces are composed of micron- and nano-scale structures that - along with a waxy coating - prevent dirt and water from adhering. Despite their unusual surface properties, the rough surfaces allow photosynthesis to continue in the leaves. When rain hits the leaves of the lotus plant, it simply beads up, noted C.P. Wong, a Regents Professor in Georgia Tech's School of Materials Science and Engineering. When the leaves are also tilted at a small angle, the beads of water run off instantaneously. While the water is rolling off, it carries away any dirt on the surface. The self-cleaning action of the lotus plant has intrigued researchers for decades, and recent studies done by researchers in several different groups have demonstrated the reasons behind the plant's unique abilities. The plant's ability to repel water and dirt results from an unusual combination of a superhydrophobic (water-repelling) surface and a combination of micron-scale hills and valleys and nanometer-scale waxy bumps that create rough surfaces that don't give water or dirt a chance to adhere. Because of the combination of nano-scale and micron-scale structures, water droplets can only contact about three percent of the surface, Wong said. They're just not touching very much of the lotus surface as compared to a smooth surface. To address several unique applications, Georgia Tech researchers have attempted to duplicate the two-tier lotus surface using a variety of materials, including polybutadiene. But that organic compound isn't suitable for coatings that are exposed to sunlight because ultraviolet radiation breaks down its carbon bonds. So to address their first lotus application - self-cleaning insulators used on high-voltage power lines - the researchers had to develop another material. Supported by the National Electric Energy Testing Research and Applications Center (NEETRAC), that project would solve a problem that plagues electric utilities. The build-up of dirt and dust on ceramic or silicone insulators used by high-voltage power lines can eventually create a short circuit that can damage the electric distribution network. It's impractical to manually clean the insulators. Wong and collaborators Yonghao Xiu, Lingbo Zhu and Dennis Hess have developed a lotus surface able to withstand ultraviolet radiation using a combination of silicone, fluorocarbons, and inorganics such as titanium dioxide and silicon dioxide. Their prototype coating has shown excellent durability in long-term testing. Supported by the National Science Foundation, NASA and other agencies, Georgia Tech is also pursuing other work based on lotus applications: * Use of carbon nanotube bundles to create the surface bumps needed to prevent dust from accumulating on the surfaces of photovoltaic (PV) cells, space suits and other equipment intended for use on the moon or Mars - where there's no rain. Arranging patterns of nanotube bundles a few microns apart and applying a weak electrical charge should help keep dust away and maintain maximum efficiency in the PV cells that power space missions. * Application of lotus coatings to prevent stiction, which is the strong adhesive force that can form between the structures of micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS) and substrates. The magnitude of these forces can be enough to deform the structures, resulting in device failure. With its superhydrophobicity and surface roughness, a lotus surface coating can prevent stiction, Wong said. * A two-tier surface system composed of hexagonally-packed silica spheres on which gold nanoparticles were deposited. The resulting chemical and physical structures were studied to establish the impact of surface hydrophobicity and roughness on the measured contact angles on the rough surfaces. * Lotus surfaces for use in implantable medical devices to prevent cells from attaching to form blood clots. If successful, this application could replace anti-clotting materials that are coated onto implantable devices such as stents used to hold blood vessels
Re: [Biofuel] THE TRUTH BEHIND THE VACCINE COVER-UP
D. Mindock wrote: Here is a treasure trove of the fallacies of vaccination. If some weak people insist on getting vaccinated, fine. But it goes over the line when they force others to get vaccinated as well. And that is what is happening. Big Pharma wants total control of your body. And they are inducing weak politicians to make the laws necessary. http://www.shirleys-wellness-cafe.com/vaccines.htm here is a gem from your antivax site: *HOMEOPATHY IS RENOWNED FOR ITS ABILITY TO REDUCE OR REPAIR THE DAMAGE CAUSED BY VACCINES LIKE NOTHING ELSE CAN !* Homeopathy http://www.shirleys-wellness-cafe.com/homeopat.htmis noted for its success to antidote or remove the toxic effects of vaccines and to re-establish balance in the organism and restore health. Certain homeopathic remedies taken after/ /vaccination can minimize vaccine damage. A professional homeopath http://www.homeopathy-cures.com/html/referrals_to_homeopaths.html should be consulted for more. what a joke. Homeopathy is the easiest of alt ernative medicines to discredit. Anyone who can count, should understand. From AAPS: what is the AAPS ? google gives numerous organisations that use those initials The Physician's Desk Reference cites adverse reactions to the hepatitis B in less than 1 percent. However, if more than 70 million American children receive the vaccine, that means more than 700,000 children are likely to suffer adverse reactions. Hepatitis B virus (HBV) is a common cause of liver disease throughout the world. An estimated one third of the world's population has serologic evidence of past infection, and the virus causes more than 1 million deaths annually.1 In the United States, the incidence of HBV infection declined from about 14 cases per 100,000 population in the mid-1980s to about three cases per 100,000 population in 1998.2 However, there are still 1.25 million adults and children in the United States with chronic HBV infection. Children are a very low risk group for hepatitis B. unless exposed during birth: Primary risk factors are dependent on lifestyle, i.e. multiple sex partners, drug abuse or an occupation with exposure to blood. http://www.doh.state.fl.us/disease_ctrl/immune/hep_b/index.htm HBV infection is a serious health problem in the United States. Transmission of HBV from mother to infant during the perinatal period confers the greatest risk of chronic infection or death from HBV-related chronic liver disease. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates that between 454 and 751 HBsAg-positive Florida women give birth each year; without prophylaxis, 45-100 infants would become infected with HBV. Ninety to 95 percent of these potential infections may be avoided through appropriate maternal screening and infant immunoprophylaxis. Rampant conflicts of interest in the approval process has been the subject of several Congressional hearings, and a recent Congressional report concluded that the pharmaceutical industry has indeed exerted undue influence on mandatory vaccine legislation toward its own financial interests. The vaccine approval process has also been contaminated by flawed or incomplete clinical trials, and government officials have chosen to ignore negative results. For example, the CDC was forced to withdraw its recommendation of the rotavirus vaccine within one year of approval. Yet public documents obtained by AAPS show that the CDC was aware of alarmingly high intussuception rates months before the vaccine was approved and recommended. Mandatory vaccines violate the medical ethic of informed consent. A case could also be made that mandates for vaccines by school districts and legislatures is the de facto practice of medicine without a license. The CDC's own Guide to Contraindications to Childhood Vaccination warns that when assessing children's common symptoms, if any one of them is a contraindication, DO NOT VACCINATE [caps added]. And yet, under legislated mandates, the vaccines are still required. End AAPS excerpt. IMO, mandatory vaccinations are not Constitutional. We have nothing if we have no control over our own bodies against outside forces. If my home is my castle, then what is my body? part of a public health program? Peace, D. Mindock P.S. Marilynn, thanks for this topic as it hits home to what this country is becoming. - Original Message - From: Marylynn Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: biofuel@sustainablelists.org Sent: Monday, October 16, 2006 6:19 PM Subject: Re: [Biofuel] THE TRUTH BEHIND THE VACCINE COVER-UP All those bumper stickers loudly proclaiming that Abortion Is Not A Medical Procedure has always made me wonder if the average individual actually knows that Childbirth is Not a Medical Procedure Either. Historically the midwife (mid-wiff-ery) or the village medicine woman assisted with the help
Re: [Biofuel] Closed-Mindedness (Was Hypnosis as Anesthesia WasTestimonials as Evidence)
D. Mindock wrote: Hi Mike, I think Weston Price would say to drink raw milk. When milk is pastuerized and homogenized, it becomes harmful to the body. Can you explain how this happens? So those drinking less of the bad milk in the Harvard study would actually be better off. Myself, I don't drink milk unless I can get it raw and organic. Also, even better, is to add kefir culture to it. I think the Hunzas drink their milk cultured, not straight up. Peace, D. Mindock - Original Message - From: Mike Weaver [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: biofuel@sustainablelists.org Sent: Tuesday, October 17, 2006 6:12 PM Subject: Re: [Biofuel] Closed-Mindedness (Was Hypnosis as Anesthesia WasTestimonials as Evidence) From the can't-help-but-stick-my-toe-in dept. Caveat: No proof other than what I've read over the years. It has always seemed to me that the maladies that people suffer from are in large part due to environment/lifestyle. In the third world, disease is far more likely to be as a result of the lack of food and adequate nutrition, wheras in the developed world, we suffer from the diseaeses of affluence: diabetis being the one that comes to mind, along with obesity-related ailments such as heart disease, high blood pressure, strokes and so on. Smoking is another factor. Another interesting item, from Harvard University's website: In particular, these studies suggest that high calcium intake doesn't actually appear to lower a person's risk for osteoporosis. For example, in the large Harvard studies of male health professionals and female nurses, individuals who drank one glass of milk (or less) per week were at no greater risk of breaking a hip or forearm than were those who drank two or more glasses per week.(2, 3 http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/calcium.html#references) Other studies have found similar results. It is odd human beings are the only animal that develop a disease if they don't eat the milk of another species. Dogs don't need cat milk. bob allen wrote: Howdy Terry, Terry Dyck wrote: HI Bob, The Western world has the highest rate of Cancer, Heart disease, Diabetes, Respiratory problems and other ailments in the world. oh really, and your source for these facts is? are the data age adjusted, etc. and just what other ailments are included. This is the issue I have with you and others, you make what I feel are overly broad statements as fact, without little or no support. So give me reference or two so I can draw my own conclusions. or how about just statistic at a time to discuss. How about age adjusted cancer rates? (age adjusting is necessary as cancer is essentially inevitable, the longer you live the more likely you are to get cancer. show me the data please. On the other hand there is a valley in the middle of the Himalayan mountains called Hunzaland that is an almost disease free area. I have heard this canard before. I googled hunzaland and about the only thing I got were people hawking their particular cure The Apricot Kernel Anti-Cancer Theory http://www.jesus-is-savior.com/land_of_hunza.htm or how about 160+ year olds http://www.arthritis-nature-cure.com/people.htm do really believe that? really, you don't think someone could be less than forthright to make a point about a product the promote? or maybe it's the magnetized water http://www.stopcancer.com/magnetpHFoundation2.htm A pure organic food diet and almost no pollution could be the reason for people having good health. or it could all be a bunch of hype. How do we know with out better documentation? -- Bob Allen, http://ozarker.org/bob = The modern conservative is engaged in one of Man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness JKG ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/ ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
Re: [Biofuel] Closed-Mindedness (Was Hypnosis as Anesthesia WasTestimonials as Evidence)
D. Mindock wrote: Hi Mike, I think Weston Price would say to drink raw milk. When milk is pastuerized and homogenized, it becomes harmful to the body. So those drinking less of the bad milk in the Harvard study would actually be better off. Myself, I don't drink milk unless I can get it raw and organic. http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2006/10/13/food/0_03_1110_12_06.txt Raw organic milk that sickened California children now OK http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2003280686_spinach29m.html Two children have been sickened in another episode of E. coli infection, this time from drinking raw milk from a Whatcom County dairy. A 5-year-old boy from Issaquah was still hospitalized with the illness Thursday, while an 8-year-old girl from Snohomish County was recovering at home, said state health officials and a spokeswoman for a store that sold the milk. http://www.sciencedaily.com/upi/index.php?feed=Sciencearticle=UPI-1-20061013-01412200-bc-britain-tb.xml Small TB outbreak traced to raw milk Also, even better, is to add kefir culture to it. I think the Hunzas drink their milk cultured, not straight up. Peace, D. Mindock - Original Message - From: Mike Weaver [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: biofuel@sustainablelists.org Sent: Tuesday, October 17, 2006 6:12 PM Subject: Re: [Biofuel] Closed-Mindedness (Was Hypnosis as Anesthesia WasTestimonials as Evidence) From the can't-help-but-stick-my-toe-in dept. Caveat: No proof other than what I've read over the years. It has always seemed to me that the maladies that people suffer from are in large part due to environment/lifestyle. In the third world, disease is far more likely to be as a result of the lack of food and adequate nutrition, wheras in the developed world, we suffer from the diseaeses of affluence: diabetis being the one that comes to mind, along with obesity-related ailments such as heart disease, high blood pressure, strokes and so on. Smoking is another factor. Another interesting item, from Harvard University's website: In particular, these studies suggest that high calcium intake doesn't actually appear to lower a person's risk for osteoporosis. For example, in the large Harvard studies of male health professionals and female nurses, individuals who drank one glass of milk (or less) per week were at no greater risk of breaking a hip or forearm than were those who drank two or more glasses per week.(2, 3 http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/calcium.html#references) Other studies have found similar results. It is odd human beings are the only animal that develop a disease if they don't eat the milk of another species. Dogs don't need cat milk. bob allen wrote: Howdy Terry, Terry Dyck wrote: HI Bob, The Western world has the highest rate of Cancer, Heart disease, Diabetes, Respiratory problems and other ailments in the world. oh really, and your source for these facts is? are the data age adjusted, etc. and just what other ailments are included. This is the issue I have with you and others, you make what I feel are overly broad statements as fact, without little or no support. So give me reference or two so I can draw my own conclusions. or how about just statistic at a time to discuss. How about age adjusted cancer rates? (age adjusting is necessary as cancer is essentially inevitable, the longer you live the more likely you are to get cancer. show me the data please. On the other hand there is a valley in the middle of the Himalayan mountains called Hunzaland that is an almost disease free area. I have heard this canard before. I googled hunzaland and about the only thing I got were people hawking their particular cure The Apricot Kernel Anti-Cancer Theory http://www.jesus-is-savior.com/land_of_hunza.htm or how about 160+ year olds http://www.arthritis-nature-cure.com/people.htm do really believe that? really, you don't think someone could be less than forthright to make a point about a product the promote? or maybe it's the magnetized water http://www.stopcancer.com/magnetpHFoundation2.htm A pure organic food diet and almost no pollution could be the reason for people having good health. or it could all be a bunch of hype. How do we know with out better documentation? -- Bob Allen, http://ozarker.org/bob = The modern conservative is engaged in one of Man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness JKG ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever:
Re: [Biofuel] Closed-Mindedness (Was Hypnosis as Anesthesia WasTestimonials as Evidence)
Actually, I hate milk and am very allergic to it. I like cheese but rarely eat it. In Europe I prefer raw sheep's milk. I read anecdotally that that both raw (grass-fed) milk and beef are much better than cooked. I don't eat much meat at all. I sometimes buy sushi grade tuna and eat it raw to get my mercury allowance ;-) D. Mindock wrote: Hi Mike, I think Weston Price would say to drink raw milk. When milk is pastuerized and homogenized, it becomes harmful to the body. So those drinking less of the bad milk in the Harvard study would actually be better off. Myself, I don't drink milk unless I can get it raw and organic. Also, even better, is to add kefir culture to it. I think the Hunzas drink their milk cultured, not straight up. Peace, D. Mindock - Original Message - From: Mike Weaver [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: biofuel@sustainablelists.org Sent: Tuesday, October 17, 2006 6:12 PM Subject: Re: [Biofuel] Closed-Mindedness (Was Hypnosis as Anesthesia WasTestimonials as Evidence) From the can't-help-but-stick-my-toe-in dept. Caveat: No proof other than what I've read over the years. It has always seemed to me that the maladies that people suffer from are in large part due to environment/lifestyle. In the third world, disease is far more likely to be as a result of the lack of food and adequate nutrition, wheras in the developed world, we suffer from the diseaeses of affluence: diabetis being the one that comes to mind, along with obesity-related ailments such as heart disease, high blood pressure, strokes and so on. Smoking is another factor. Another interesting item, from Harvard University's website: In particular, these studies suggest that high calcium intake doesn't actually appear to lower a person's risk for osteoporosis. For example, in the large Harvard studies of male health professionals and female nurses, individuals who drank one glass of milk (or less) per week were at no greater risk of breaking a hip or forearm than were those who drank two or more glasses per week.(2, 3 http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/calcium.html#references) Other studies have found similar results. It is odd human beings are the only animal that develop a disease if they don't eat the milk of another species. Dogs don't need cat milk. bob allen wrote: Howdy Terry, Terry Dyck wrote: HI Bob, The Western world has the highest rate of Cancer, Heart disease, Diabetes, Respiratory problems and other ailments in the world. oh really, and your source for these facts is? are the data age adjusted, etc. and just what other ailments are included. This is the issue I have with you and others, you make what I feel are overly broad statements as fact, without little or no support. So give me reference or two so I can draw my own conclusions. or how about just statistic at a time to discuss. How about age adjusted cancer rates? (age adjusting is necessary as cancer is essentially inevitable, the longer you live the more likely you are to get cancer. show me the data please. On the other hand there is a valley in the middle of the Himalayan mountains called Hunzaland that is an almost disease free area. I have heard this canard before. I googled hunzaland and about the only thing I got were people hawking their particular cure The Apricot Kernel Anti-Cancer Theory http://www.jesus-is-savior.com/land_of_hunza.htm or how about 160+ year olds http://www.arthritis-nature-cure.com/people.htm do really believe that? really, you don't think someone could be less than forthright to make a point about a product the promote? or maybe it's the magnetized water http://www.stopcancer.com/magnetpHFoundation2.htm A pure organic food diet and almost no pollution could be the reason for people having good health. or it could all be a bunch of hype. How do we know with out better documentation? -- Bob Allen, http://ozarker.org/bob = The modern conservative is engaged in one of Man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness JKG ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/ ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages):
Re: [Biofuel] Closed-Mindedness (Was Hypnosis as Anesthesia WasTestimonials as Evidence)
In Montreal this summer I tried steak tartar, as it was on the menu in several resturants. It was served as a little volcano of ground beef, with a raw egg in the cone. Mike Weaver wrote: Actually, I hate milk and am very allergic to it. I like cheese but rarely eat it. In Europe I prefer raw sheep's milk. I read anecdotally that that both raw (grass-fed) milk and beef are much better than cooked. I don't eat much meat at all. I sometimes buy sushi grade tuna and eat it raw to get my mercury allowance ;-) D. Mindock wrote: Hi Mike, I think Weston Price would say to drink raw milk. When milk is pastuerized and homogenized, it becomes harmful to the body. So those drinking less of the bad milk in the Harvard study would actually be better off. Myself, I don't drink milk unless I can get it raw and organic. Also, even better, is to add kefir culture to it. I think the Hunzas drink their milk cultured, not straight up. Peace, D. Mindock - Original Message - From: Mike Weaver [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: biofuel@sustainablelists.org Sent: Tuesday, October 17, 2006 6:12 PM Subject: Re: [Biofuel] Closed-Mindedness (Was Hypnosis as Anesthesia WasTestimonials as Evidence) From the can't-help-but-stick-my-toe-in dept. Caveat: No proof other than what I've read over the years. It has always seemed to me that the maladies that people suffer from are in large part due to environment/lifestyle. In the third world, disease is far more likely to be as a result of the lack of food and adequate nutrition, wheras in the developed world, we suffer from the diseaeses of affluence: diabetis being the one that comes to mind, along with obesity-related ailments such as heart disease, high blood pressure, strokes and so on. Smoking is another factor. Another interesting item, from Harvard University's website: In particular, these studies suggest that high calcium intake doesn't actually appear to lower a person's risk for osteoporosis. For example, in the large Harvard studies of male health professionals and female nurses, individuals who drank one glass of milk (or less) per week were at no greater risk of breaking a hip or forearm than were those who drank two or more glasses per week.(2, 3 http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/calcium.html#references) Other studies have found similar results. It is odd human beings are the only animal that develop a disease if they don't eat the milk of another species. Dogs don't need cat milk. bob allen wrote: Howdy Terry, Terry Dyck wrote: HI Bob, The Western world has the highest rate of Cancer, Heart disease, Diabetes, Respiratory problems and other ailments in the world. oh really, and your source for these facts is? are the data age adjusted, etc. and just what other ailments are included. This is the issue I have with you and others, you make what I feel are overly broad statements as fact, without little or no support. So give me reference or two so I can draw my own conclusions. or how about just statistic at a time to discuss. How about age adjusted cancer rates? (age adjusting is necessary as cancer is essentially inevitable, the longer you live the more likely you are to get cancer. show me the data please. On the other hand there is a valley in the middle of the Himalayan mountains called Hunzaland that is an almost disease free area. I have heard this canard before. I googled hunzaland and about the only thing I got were people hawking their particular cure The Apricot Kernel Anti-Cancer Theory http://www.jesus-is-savior.com/land_of_hunza.htm or how about 160+ year olds http://www.arthritis-nature-cure.com/people.htm do really believe that? really, you don't think someone could be less than forthright to make a point about a product the promote? or maybe it's the magnetized water http://www.stopcancer.com/magnetpHFoundation2.htm A pure organic food diet and almost no pollution could be the reason for people having good health. or it could all be a bunch of hype. How do we know with out better documentation? -- Bob Allen, http://ozarker.org/bob = The modern conservative is engaged in one of Man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness JKG ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages):
Re: [Biofuel] Closed-Mindedness (Was Hypnosis as AnesthesiaWasTestimonials as Evidence)
Hi D and Mike...isn't homogenized milk whipped up into incredibly small particles that actually scar the lining of the esophagus and arteries, thereby, allowing cholesterol to more easily coagulate along the linings? Whether or not it does, I say "soy milk." I know I know...tastes terrible, to some. But I only use it on cereals and a couple of desserts. Plenty of other stuffto be drinking, likeuh, waterdistilled of course...I know I know minerals etc etc...hey...distilledperiod...and don't bother me about taste...if you can taste it, it ain't water you're tasting! Yeah, I'm closed minded on this one!! LOL Mike DuPree - Original Message - From: "D. Mindock" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: biofuel@sustainablelists.org Sent: Wednesday, October 18, 2006 2:56 AM Subject: Re: [Biofuel] Closed-Mindedness (Was Hypnosis as AnesthesiaWasTestimonials as Evidence) Hi Mike, I think Weston Price would say to drink raw milk. When milk is pastuerized and homogenized, it becomes harmful to the body. So those drinking less of the bad milk in the Harvard study would actually be better off. Myself, I don't drink milk unless I can get it raw and organic. Also, even better, is to add kefir culture to it. I think the Hunzas drink their milk cultured, not straight up. Peace, D. Mindock - Original Message - From: "Mike Weaver" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: biofuel@sustainablelists.org Sent: Tuesday, October 17, 2006 6:12 PM Subject: Re: [Biofuel] Closed-Mindedness (Was Hypnosis as Anesthesia WasTestimonials as Evidence) From the can't-help-but-stick-my-toe-in dept. Caveat: No proof other than what I've read over the years. It has always seemed to me that the maladies that people suffer from are in large part due to environment/lifestyle. In the third world, disease is far more likely to be as a result of the lack of food and adequate nutrition, wheras in the developed world, we suffer from the diseaeses of affluence: diabetis being the one that comes to mind, along with obesity-related ailments such as heart disease, high blood pressure, strokes and so on. Smoking is another factor. Another interesting item, from Harvard University's website: In particular, these studies suggest that high calcium intake doesn't actually appear to lower a person's risk for osteoporosis. For example, in the large Harvard studies of male health professionals and female nurses, individuals who drank one glass of milk (or less) per week were at no greater risk of breaking a hip or forearm than were those who drank two or more glasses per week.(2, 3 http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/calcium.html#references) Other studies have found similar results. It is odd human beings are the only animal that develop "a disease" if they don't eat the milk of another species. Dogs don't need cat milk. bob allen wrote:Howdy Terry,Terry Dyck wrote:HI Bob,The Western world has the highest rate of Cancer, Heart disease, Diabetes,Respiratory problems and other ailments in the world.oh really, and your source for these "facts" is? are the data ageadjusted, etc. and just what "other" ailments are included. This is theissue I have with you and others, you make what I feel are overly broadstatements as fact, without little or no support. So give mereference or two so I can draw my own conclusions.or how about just statistic at a time to discuss. How about ageadjusted cancer rates? (age adjusting is necessary as cancer isessentially inevitable, the longer you live the more likely you are toget cancer. show me the data please. On the other handthere is a valley in the middle of the Himalayan mountains called Hunzalandthat is an almost disease free area.I have heard this canard before. I googled hunzaland and about the onlything I got were people hawking their particular "cure" The Apricot Kernel Anti-Cancer Theory http://www.jesus-is-savior.com/land_of_hunza.htmor how about 160+ year oldshttp://www.arthritis-nature-cure.com/people.htmdo really believe that? really, you don't think someone could be lessthan forthright to make a point about a product the promote?or maybe it's the magnetized waterhttp://www.stopcancer.com/magnetpHFoundation2.htm A pure organic food diet and almost nopollution could be the reason for people having good health.or it could all be a bunch of hype. How do we know with out betterdocumentation?--Bob Allen, http://ozarker.org/bob=The modern conservative is engaged in one of Man's oldest exercises inmoral philosophy; that is,the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness JKG ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list
[Biofuel] Greener aircraft fuels.
I stumbled across this information today while researching ethanol conversions for piston aeroplanes. This might be old news, but I thought it might be interesting to some.http://www.baylor.edu/bias/index.php?id=4556Research on biodiesel/Jet fuel blends:http://www3.baylor.edu/Aviation_Sciences/pdf/PT6ReportWeb.pdfBlue skies,Matt.Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
Re: [Biofuel] Closed-Mindedness (Was Hypnosis as Anesthesia WasTestimonials as Evidence)
I grew up eating it - with raw egg and onion - I only eat grass-fed beef if any. bob allen wrote: In Montreal this summer I tried steak tartar, as it was on the menu in several resturants. It was served as a little volcano of ground beef, with a raw egg in the cone. Mike Weaver wrote: Actually, I hate milk and am very allergic to it. I like cheese but rarely eat it. In Europe I prefer raw sheep's milk. I read anecdotally that that both raw (grass-fed) milk and beef are much better than cooked. I don't eat much meat at all. I sometimes buy sushi grade tuna and eat it raw to get my mercury allowance ;-) D. Mindock wrote: Hi Mike, I think Weston Price would say to drink raw milk. When milk is pastuerized and homogenized, it becomes harmful to the body. So those drinking less of the bad milk in the Harvard study would actually be better off. Myself, I don't drink milk unless I can get it raw and organic. Also, even better, is to add kefir culture to it. I think the Hunzas drink their milk cultured, not straight up. Peace, D. Mindock - Original Message - From: Mike Weaver [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: biofuel@sustainablelists.org Sent: Tuesday, October 17, 2006 6:12 PM Subject: Re: [Biofuel] Closed-Mindedness (Was Hypnosis as Anesthesia WasTestimonials as Evidence) From the can't-help-but-stick-my-toe-in dept. Caveat: No proof other than what I've read over the years. It has always seemed to me that the maladies that people suffer from are in large part due to environment/lifestyle. In the third world, disease is far more likely to be as a result of the lack of food and adequate nutrition, wheras in the developed world, we suffer from the diseaeses of affluence: diabetis being the one that comes to mind, along with obesity-related ailments such as heart disease, high blood pressure, strokes and so on. Smoking is another factor. Another interesting item, from Harvard University's website: In particular, these studies suggest that high calcium intake doesn't actually appear to lower a person's risk for osteoporosis. For example, in the large Harvard studies of male health professionals and female nurses, individuals who drank one glass of milk (or less) per week were at no greater risk of breaking a hip or forearm than were those who drank two or more glasses per week.(2, 3 http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/calcium.html#references) Other studies have found similar results. It is odd human beings are the only animal that develop a disease if they don't eat the milk of another species. Dogs don't need cat milk. bob allen wrote: Howdy Terry, Terry Dyck wrote: HI Bob, The Western world has the highest rate of Cancer, Heart disease, Diabetes, Respiratory problems and other ailments in the world. oh really, and your source for these facts is? are the data age adjusted, etc. and just what other ailments are included. This is the issue I have with you and others, you make what I feel are overly broad statements as fact, without little or no support. So give me reference or two so I can draw my own conclusions. or how about just statistic at a time to discuss. How about age adjusted cancer rates? (age adjusting is necessary as cancer is essentially inevitable, the longer you live the more likely you are to get cancer. show me the data please. On the other hand there is a valley in the middle of the Himalayan mountains called Hunzaland that is an almost disease free area. I have heard this canard before. I googled hunzaland and about the only thing I got were people hawking their particular cure The Apricot Kernel Anti-Cancer Theory http://www.jesus-is-savior.com/land_of_hunza.htm or how about 160+ year olds http://www.arthritis-nature-cure.com/people.htm do really believe that? really, you don't think someone could be less than forthright to make a point about a product the promote? or maybe it's the magnetized water http://www.stopcancer.com/magnetpHFoundation2.htm A pure organic food diet and almost no pollution could be the reason for people having good health. or it could all be a bunch of hype. How do we know with out better documentation? -- Bob Allen, http://ozarker.org/bob = The modern conservative is engaged in one of Man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness JKG ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever:
[Biofuel] Scientists Find Farm Link To Breast Cancer
http://www.precaution.org/lib/06/prn_breast_cancer_and_farms.061012.htm Toronto Globe and Mail, October 12, 2006 Scientists Find Farm Link To Breast Cancer [Rachel's introduction: A new study from Canada links farm life to an increased likelihood of breast cancer.] By Martin Mittelstaedt A team of researchers who studied the occupations of nearly all the Windsor, Ontario women who developed breast cancer in a period from 2000 to 2002 found they were about three times more likely to have worked on farms than women who didn't have the disease. What's more, those who farmed and then later worked in the automotive industry were four times more likely to have the disease, according to a paper about the research being published Thursday in the Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. The new study is one of the most detailed investigations undertaken in Canada into the occupations of women who developed breast cancer, and it indicates that something about farming increases the risk of the disease, the most common cancer to afflict females in the country. Although the researchers didn't determine what these risks were, they speculated about pesticides, many of which are able to mimic or block the normal functioning of estrogen and other hormones. If you were going to hypothesize about the No. 1 most likely cause of this elevated risk, I think you'd have to look at the whole chemical exposure that exists on farms, said Jim Brophy, head of the Occupational Health Clinics for Ontario Workers in Sarnia, and lead author of the paper. A staggering 99 per cent of all those treated for the disease at Windsor's cancer centre during the period of the research agreed to participate. Dr. Brophy said there was an enormous desire among women, who typically are not asked about the role their jobs may have played in their illness, to be part of a study that might help explain their cancer. That desire has a resonance with Tricia Pletsch, who worked on her parent's farm near Chatham as a teenager and developed breast cancer two years ago, at 39. Her family doesn't have a history of the cancer, but she worries about the heavy chemical use on the farm while growing up. Pesticides were really popular in the seventies, she said. Like most women with breast cancer, her doctors never asked about her occupation when trying to explain her illness and were at a total loss to explain why she was afflicted. No one asked me what I did, and when I asked them why I got it, no one had a clue, she said. Scientists around the world are struggling to explain the recent epidemic of breast cancer in industrialized countries because fewer than 10 per cent of those with the disease have a known genetic predisposition for it. Rates for the cancer in Canada are among the highest in the world, with the lifetime risk of about one in nine. During the past 30 years, there has been a largely unexplained 25-per-cent increase in the country's age-adjusted incidence rate. Previous research has found an association between breast cancer and a woman's socioeconomic status, diet, age of first pregnancy, and several other factors, but the majority of cases have no known risk factor. It is also not known why women with higher socioeconomic status are more at risk, but Dr. Brophy says occupation should be investigated more closely because it might provide clues on cancer-causing substances and new prevention strategies. If you would capture the lifetime [work] histories of people with cancer, it might be very revealing in terms of risk factors that we're not currently addressing. That could have an enormous preventative effect, Dr. Brophy said. He said there has to be a major risk in farming to cause the research results. It's very dramatic, in the most common cancer among women where 50 per cent of the cases are unexplained, to have a three-fold excess, Dr. Brophy said. In Canada, none of the provincial registries track cancers by occupation. About 22,000 women in Canada will develop breast cancer this year and an estimated 5,300 will die from it. Up until now, little research on occupation and breast-cancer risk has been done in Canada, although researchers at the British Columbia Cancer Agency looked at work histories and the disease in 2000. They also found an association with agriculture, although they looked at far fewer women farmers than the current study, whose results were considered statistically significant. An official with Canada's largest cancer registry says he thinks it would be a good idea to study the occupations of those with the disease, although he said this effort would require millions in funding and a political will to implement. I certainly don't dispute that it's a neglected area, particularly with women coming into the work force and the nature of work changing, said Eric Holowaty, an epidemiologist at Cancer Care Ontario. In Windsor, the researchers
[Biofuel] Beyond Kyoto
http://www.fpif.org/fpiftxt/3585 Foreign Policy In Focus Beyond Kyoto Ruth Greenspan Bell | October 10, 2006 Editor: John Feffer, IRC Foreign Policy In Focus www.fpif.org Hoff Stauffer should not be so apologetic and tenuous in his proposal for performance standards. If and when the world decides to become serious and really do something about global warming (and the considerable lag times normally encountered between decision and action suggest we are fast running out of time), I doubt the Kyoto Protocol will have anything to do with what emerges. Kyoto and its flexible mechanisms may represent an idealized vision of how pollution might be controlled in a perfect world, but the real world is far from meeting those conditions. The question we should be asking is: why would the world want to experiment with untried theory for this critical and time-sensitive problem? As Stauffer notes, there is almost no experience with global cap and trade and no reason to believe it can work. Analysis coming out of India suggests that the Kyoto Protocol's Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) is already subject to manipulation and it is not possible to be confident that genuine carbon reductions are being achieved. There is some experience with taxation, but its success has been very site-specific: consider the fate of the gasoline tax in the United States compared with European efforts. No one promoting either the emission-trading or the carbon-tax solution has convincing answers to such concerns. Of course, it is indisputable that putting a price on something helps control behavior-look at what has happened as gas prices have shot up in the United States over the past year-but few domestic elected officials are brave enough to vote for a gas tax. Only a very grave sense of urgency might reverse this impasse. The climate debate has been dominated thus far by a single-minded focus on efficiency as the most important criteria for a remedial program. No one disputes that money and resources should not be wasted, but the focus should be efficacy, experience, and practicality, with the hope that, when we find a system that can really work, we will be as efficient as possible under the circumstances. Efficiency has never been the sole driver of any environmental requirement. We need to get beyond arguing for and against market instruments and the spectacularly ill-labeled command and control and focus instead on devising a whole menu of solutions, flexibly keeping what works and abandoning what does not. It is true that very little environmental regulation-neither market instruments nor performance standards-has worked in the developing world and many parts of the countries in economic and political transition. A serious effort would employ social science techniques to understand what approaches and arguments would be genuinely persuasive and effective in specific places like India and China, rather than continuing to have debates about theory. There is no reason why the architecture for addressing climate has to be consistent everywhere-only the commitment to making reductions and carrying through on that commitment need be part of a global plan. Stauffer says it would be relatively easy to determine whether a coal plant has the required control technology. Experience shows that turn-key industrial plants are being built in China, but the operators save on running costs by turning off the pollution control equipment or only using it at their convenience. In Russia, we saw plants with the requisite air pollution control equipment but no one cleaned the bag house and thus the discharge was unabated. These are among the reasons why I am dubious about a faith in technology without at the same time changing the mind-sets of the people who run it. Incentives are complex things and they are different in different societies. Stauffer is right to focus on new sources, particularly power plants. In the United States, industry has announced that approximately 20 applications covering 28 units could be filed with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission in late 2007 and 2008. But at the same time, utilities are planning many more coal-fired plants and doing little or nothing about conservation. In China, it is said that unrestrained coal-fired plants are going on line at the rate of one a month. An idea to address the U.S. problem would be a dual program to educate state utility commissioners (who mostly consider the short-term cost to the rate payers) and to fund rate-proceeding interventions state by state to advocate for conservation and sequestration. Ruth Greenspan Bell is director of the International Institutional Development and Environmental Assistance program at Resources for the Future in Washington, DC. For More Information A New Standard for Preventing Global Warming Hoff Stauffer | October 4, 2006 http://www.fpif.org/fpiftxt/3562
[Biofuel] Neocons: Regime Change or Bust
http://rightweb.irc-online.org/rw/3586 Right Web | Analysis Neocons: Regime Change or Bust Jim Lobe | October 11, 2006 IRC Right Web rightweb.irc-online.org Encouraging Japan to build nuclear weapons, shipping food aid via submarines, and running secret sabotage operations inside North Korea's borders are among a raft of policy prescriptions pushed by prominent U.S. neoconservatives in the wake of Pyongyang's nuclear test. Writing in venues ranging from the National Review Online (NRO) to the New York Times, neoconservatives are claiming, contrary to lessons drawn by realist and other critics of the George W. Bush administration, that the nuclear test vindicates their long-held view that negotiations with rogue states like North Korea are useless and that regime change-by military means, if necessary-is the only answer. With our intelligence on North Korea so uneven, the doctrine of preemption must return to the fore, wrote Dan Blumenthal, an Asia specialist at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) who worked for Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld during Bush's first term, in the NRO (October 10, 2006). Any talk of renewed Six-Party Talks [involving China, Japan, Russia, the United States, and the two Koreas] must be resisted. The North Korean test has stripped any plausibility to arguments that engaging dictators works, according to Michael Rubin, a Middle East specialist at AEI, who added that the Bush administration now faces a watershed in its relations with other states that have defied Washington in recent years. This crisis is not just about North Korea, but about Iran, Syria, Venezuela, and Cuba as well, according to Rubin. Bush now has two choices: to respond forcefully and show that defiance has consequence, or affirm that defiance pays and that international will is illusionary. [He] must now choose whether his legacy will be one of inaction or leadership, Chamberlain or Churchill, he added in a reference to the pre-World War II debate between the appeasement of British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain and the war policy of his successor, Winston Churchill. The neoconservatives' influence on the Bush administration has generally been on the wane since late 2003 when it became clear that the Iraq War, which neoconservatives had championed, was going badly. Nonetheless, neoconservatives retain some clout, particularly through the offices of Vice President Dick Cheney and Pentagon chief Rumsfeld. They are opposed by the realists, who are concentrated in the State Department and also include former Secretary of State Colin Powell, his chief deputy Richard Armacost, and a number of top national security officials in the administration of former President George H.W. Bush, such as former National Security Adviser Brent Scowcroft and former Secretary of State James Baker. The realists' stance is anathema to the neoconservatives and their right-wing allies, such as Cheney, who, at one National Security Council meeting on North Korea several years ago reportedly said, We don't negotiate with evil; we defeat it. The neoconservatives' main area of concern has historically been the Middle East-indeed, their central focus in recent months has been publicizing the threats to the United States and Israel allegedly posed by Iran and Hezbollah and opposing any realist appeals to engage Tehran and Damascus in direct talks. But they have also been warning for some time against the appeasement of North Korea and its chief source of material aid and support, China. In their view, Beijing has always had the power to force Pyongyang to give up its nuclear arms programs, and the fact that it has not done so supposedly demonstrates that China sees itself as a strategic rival of Washington, a phrase much favored by administration hawks during Bush's first year in office. Indeed, in the most prominent neoconservative reaction to the North Korean test to date, in a New York Times column former Bush speechwriter David Frum called for the administration to take a series of measures designed to punish China for its failure to bring Pyongyang to heel. Frum, who is also based at AEI and is sometimes credited with inventing the phrase axis of evil for Bush's 2002 State of the Union address, urged the administration to cut off all humanitarian aid to North Korea, pressure South Korea to do the same, and thus force China to shoulder the cost of helping to avert North Korea's economic collapse (October 10, 2006). Frum urged that Japan, South Korea, Australia, New Zealand, and Singapore be invited to join NATO, and that Taiwan, which China regards as a renegade province, be invited to send observers to NATO meetings. He also suggested that Washington encourage Japan to renounce the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and create its own nuclear deterrent. A nuclear Japan is the thing China and North Korea dread most (after, perhaps, a nuclear South
[Biofuel] Profile: Progressive Policy Institute
http://rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/1534 Right Web | Profile | Progressive Policy Institute Right Web News last updated: September 8, 2006 Don't look now, but neoconservatism is making a comeback-and not among the Republicans who have made it famous, but in the Democratic Party, declared writer Jacob Heilbrunn in a May 28, 2006 op-ed for the Los Angeles Times. In Neocons in the Democratic Party, Heilbrunn argued that a new generation of Democratic pundits and young national security experts are trying to revive the Cold War precepts of President Harry S. Truman and apply them to the war on terror. The fledgling neocons of the left are based at places such as the Progressive Policy Institute (PPI), whose president, Will Marshall, has just released a volume of doctrine called With All Our Might: A Progressive Strategy for Defeating Jihadism and Defending Liberty Their political champions include Connecticut Sen. Joseph Lieberman and such likely presidential candidates as former Virginia Gov. Mark Warner and Iowa Gov. Tom Vilsack, who is chairman of the Democratic Leadership Council (DLC). Concluded Heilbrunn: It is amusing to see that at the very moment when hawkish realists are trying to extirpate the neocon credo in the Republican Party, it's being revived in the Democratic Party that first brought it to life. PPI, founded in 1989 by Marshall and Al From, is a project of the Third Way Foundation, a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization. As the think tank for the Democratic Leadership Council, the PPI says its mission arises from the belief that America is ill-served by an obsolete left-right debate that is out of step with the powerful forces reshaping our society and economy. PPI claims to advocate a philosophy that adapts the progressive tradition in American politics to the realities of the information age and points to a 'third way' beyond the liberal impulse to defend the bureaucratic status quo and the conservative bid to simply dismantle government. Marshall and From have long advocated for a third way in the political debate that consists of free-market principles that largely echo the right-wing platform, making their organization's name misleading. Indeed, one of PPI's five strategies includes confronting global disorder by building enduring new international structures of economic and political freedom (PPI Overview, June 1, 1998). Marshall is president of the Third Way Foundation and of PPI, and From is the foundation's chairman. Paul Weinstein is the institute's chief operating officer. In fiscal 2004, Third Way board members included Linda Peek Schacht, Charles Alston, William Budinger, William Galston, and Susan Hothem, according to the IRS Form 990 provided at GuideStar.org. PPI staff includes Marshall, Steven Nider (expert in foreign and security studies), Michele Stockwell (education and social policy), David Kendall (health), Edward Gresser (trade), and Jan Mazurek (energy and environment). PPI senior fellows include Weinstein, Andrew Rotherham, Marshall Wittmann, and Fred Siegel. PPI operates on an annual budget approaching $3 million. Seymour Martin Lipset, a leading neoconservative political sociologist, is a former PPI board member, according to a 2002 report by Capital Research Center. The core principles of the third way movement are set forth in the DLC/PPI's 1996 publication, The New Progressive Declaration: A Political Philosophy for the Information Age. As the New Democrats explain, the enduring progressive values must be adapted to the information age, which translates into policy recommendations that are very close to policies articulated by the administration of George W. Bush: uncompromising support for free market and free trade economics, a strong military with a global presence, an end to the politics of entitlement, rejection of affirmative action, and an embrace of competitive enterprise while at the same time rejecting a key role for government in development policy. Expressing the opinion of many progressive Democrats, Robert Kuttner, American Prospect editor, wrote that the political approach of the DLC amounts to splitting the difference with a Republican administration (American Prospect, July 7, 2002). The PPI publishes reports and press releases that bolster DLC positions, including support for the invasion of Iraq and a more confrontational approach to relations with North Korea and Iran. Although the PPI largely reflects neoconservative positions on foreign and military policy, it has a more favorable view of multilateralism as a principle of foreign policy and rejects the argument that a missile defense system is necessary for U.S. national security (see, for example, Peter D. Zimmerman, Missile Defense and American Security: A Sensible National Policy, PPI Policy Report, May 1, 1996; and Steven J. Nider, A Third Way on Missile Defense, Blueprint Magazine, September 10, 2001).
[Biofuel] Carbon Freeze?
http://eatthestate.org/11-03/CarbonFreeze.htm (October 12, 2006) Carbon Freeze? Recently I've been reading Revenge of Gaia by James Lovelock. Though it sounds like a science fiction novel (and some will critique it that way), it is in fact an impassioned plea for recognizing the depth of the climate crisis and a call to action. Gaia, or the notion of a living planet Earth, was proposed by Lovelock in the 1960s when he was a planet scientist for NASA looking at the inert atmosphere of Mars. It occurred to him that life itself on Earth was manipulating the atmosphere to its own benefit. While the Earth Science community has now recognized that our planet does indeed self-regulate its temperature and composition, it shies away from Lovelock's contention that there is an active, willful component to Gaia. Now Lovelock is back, arguing that the regulating mechanisms are failing; in fact, that Gaia has a fever and is raising her temperature to get rid of us. As anthropomorphic as this notion is, Lovelock at 82 is no crackpot. I recently saw him at the University Bookstore, and he comes across as the genteel but sharp-witted English scientist that he is. As a fellow of the Royal Society, Britain's most prestigious science organization, he is on top of the latest climate science. And unlike most scientists, he feels that his objectivity is not compromised by speaking out. Much of the science in the book is familiar: the hockey-stick-like rise in global temperatures in recent years, the dramatic loss of ice in Greenland and the Antarctic and Arctic, the melting permafrost, etc. But Lovelock adds some new twists and goes beyond the smooth and linear temperature increases that characterize the IPCC predictions. For Lovelock, discontinuities and tipping points in the form of sudden temperature rises will bring irreversible change and add up to a bleak future where humanity itself is threatened. Lovelock advances the notion that the Earth is returning to a new hot state, about eight degrees Centigrade warmer, that will last a hundred thousand years or more. Such an episode did occur about 55 million years ago, when massive methane releases overwhelmed the planet. As corroborating evidence that we could enter a new hot state, Lovelock points to his computer simulations that mimic algae growth in the oceans. According to his model, when carbon dioxide levels begin to exceed about 500 parts per million, the ocean algae with their ability to absorb carbon and promote cloud cover become extinct, leading to an abrupt jump in global temperature of around eight degrees. This sort of temperature jump would turn much of the planet into scrub and desert, which together with massive flooding would lead to a catastrophic die-off in the human population. To be sure, these sorts of predictions are speculative at this stage. The new IPCC report is due out next year (and it is rumored to be frightening). But it would be foolish to ignore the possibility that letting carbon dioxide levels rise to 500 ppm would put the lives of billions of people at risk. (Note, according to Paul Roberts' The End of Oil, that even if we stabilized carbon emissions at current levels--a carbon freeze--we will reach 520 ppm by 2100. If we do nothing, we will hit 550 ppm by mid-century.) Even if we have already passed a point of no return, Lovelock advocates replacing our fossil fuels as soon as possible to slow the temperature increases and to buy us more time. He proposes a range of alternative energies, including nuclear fission, until we can develop nuclear fusion, which is still decades away from feasibility, if at all. Getting off of fossil fuels may be easier than Lovelock thinks. He seems to be unaware of peaking global oil supplies. Retired Princeton geology professor Ken Deffeyes is still sticking to his December 2005 prediction for global peak oil. His new evidence? New data from the US Energy Information Administration that world crude oil production peaked at 85.1 million barrels a day last December and then declined to 84.3 million barrels this past June. (www.energybulletin.net/20518.html). A temporary downturn, perhaps. (Chris Skrebowski, editor of Petroleum Review, with his field-by-field analysis, still sticks to his 2010/2011 peak.) Meanwhile knowledge of the coming energy crisis seems scant in Seattle. Portland and San Francisco city councils have already passed Peak Oil resolutions, setting up committees to study how their city will react and prepare for the coming high energy prices and shortages. Energy analyst Matt Simmons thinks the genie is now out of the bottle and peak oil and gas will dominate the 2008 election (www.energybulletin.net/21055.html). Al Gore, well aware of the global warming/peak oil systems crisis, and who has done more than anyone recently to wake up lethargic Americans, is calling for an immediate carbon freeze, followed by steep
[Biofuel] Some Chemicals Are More Harmful Than Anyone Ever Suspected
http://www.precaution.org/lib/06/prn_stop_the_killing.pt1.060921.htm Rachel's Democracy Health News #876, October 12, 2006 Some Chemicals Are More Harmful Than Anyone Ever Suspected [Rachel's introduction: Evidence is piling up to show that many chemicals can cause serious illnesses, which then can be passed on to our children and grandchildren.] By Peter Montague New evidence is flooding in to suggest that many industrial chemicals are more dangerous than previously understood. During the 1990s, it came as a surprise that many industrial chemicals can interfere with the hormone systems of many species, including humans. Hormones are chemicals that circulate in the blood stream at very low levels (parts per billion, and in some cases parts per trillion), acting like switches, turning on and off bodily processes. From the moment of conception throughout the remainder of life, our growth, development and even many kinds of behavior are controlled by hormones. Now new evidence is piling up to show that some of these hormone-related changes can be passed from one generation to the next by a mechanism that remains poorly understood, called epigenetics. Until very recently scientists had thought that inherited traits always involved genetic mutations -- physical changes in the sequence of nucleotides that make up the DNA molecule itself. Now they know that there is a second genetic code that somehow influences the way genes operate, and that by some poorly-understood mechanism can be passed along to successive generations. Medical scientists hope to take advantage of the new science of epigenetics to manipulate the behavior of genes for beneficial purposes. But the dark side of this new understanding is that stress, smoking, and pollution can cause epigenetic changes -- including many serious diseases like cancer and kidney disease -- that apparently can be passed along to one's children and even grandchildren. For example, Dutch women who went hungry during World War II gave birth to small babies. These babies, in turn, gave birth to small babies even though they themselves had plenty to eat. It changes the whole way we think about inheritance, says Dr. Moshe Szyf at McGill University in Toronto. Just last month professor Michael Skinner at Washington State University in Spokane announced results of laboratory experiments http://www.precaution.org/lib/06/prn_cancer_toxin_connection.060915.h tm showing that environmental pollution could permanently reprogram the genetic traits of a family line of rodents, creating a legacy of sickness. This research highlights the long-term dangers from environmental pollution, professor Skinner said. Dr. Skinner showed that a single exposure to a toxic chemical in the womb could produce a sick litter of offspring, which in turn could produce its own sick offspring. It's a new way to think about disease, Dr. Skinner said. A human analogy would be if your grandmother was exposed to an environmental toxicant during mid-gestation, you may develop a disease state even though you never had direct exposure, and you may pass it on to your great-grandchildren, Skinner said. It introduces the concept of responsibility into genetics, says Dr. Szyf. As a recent story in the Toronto Globe Mail http://www.precaution.org/lib/06/prn_code_2.060311.htm summarized, Epigenetics may revolutionize medicine, said Dr. Szyf, and it also could change the way we think about daily decisions like whether or not to order fries with a meal, or to go for a walk or to stay in front of the television. You aren't eating and exercising for yourself, but for your lineage. On average, 1800 new chemicals are registered with the federal government each year and about 750 of these find their way into products, all with hardly any testing for health or environmental effects. Brominated flame retardants, phthalates, bisphenol-A, PFOA (related to the manufacture of Teflon) are the toxins that have gained our attention at the moment. By working overtime for 10 or 15 years in the traditional environmentalist way, we may be able to ban a half-dozen of them. But during that 10 or 15 years, the chemical industry (and the federal EPA) will have introduced somewhere between 7,000 and 10,000 new chemicals into commerce, almost entirely untested. This destructive merry-go-round is accelerating. Faced with evidence of harm, governments tend to respond initially by conducting risk assessments to show there is no problem. The main function of risk assessment is to make chemical problems disappear, almost like magic. As EPA's first administrator, William Ruckelshaus, reminded us, We should remember that risk assessment data can be like the captured spy: If you torture it long enough, it will tell you anything you want to know. So the bad news about chemical contamination is steadily mounting, while the number of new chemicals is steadily increasing. As
[Biofuel] Paraquat and palm oil
See also: Why paraquat should be banned Barbara Dinham of PAN UK, on behalf of the Pesticide Action Network explains why the risks associated with the continued use of paraquat are too high and cannot be justified. Reproduced from Outlooks on Pest Management (Volume 15/No.6, 2004) with permission from Research Information Ltd. Website: http://www.panap.net/uploads/media/paraquatdinham.pdf Paraquat - Unacceptable Health Risks For Users The use of paraquat has been a subject of controversy for at least two decades, especially regarding the safety of farmers and agricultural workers in developing countries. Both intentional and unintentional poisonings with paraquat, mainly among agricultural workers, farmers and inhabitants of rural areas, have led to serious concern among national health authorities, workers' unions and non-governmental organisations. A number of factors cause work-related (occupational) fatalities to be underestimated, and suicides over-represented. Acutely toxic pesticides are used in many countries under inadequate conditions and contribute considerably to ill health and unnecessary deaths, both among agricultural workers and the general public. This report presents the findings by experts, national and international organisations on working conditions, effects on human health and the environment, reviews alternatives, and makes recommendations on measures to reduce these negative impacts. http://www.panap.net/uploads/media/Paraquat_-_Unacceptable_Health_Risk s_to_Users_02.pdf - http://www.panna.org/resources/documents/sygentaBackgrounder.dv.html PANNA: Paraquat - A Dangerous Poison Paraquat - A Dangerous Poison Concerns over the hazards of paraquat have prompted many countries to ban this herbicide. Paraquat has been a subject of a campaign by PAN International for decades as one of the Dirty Dozen pesticides that must be eliminated worldwide. Agricultural workers unions across the world, spearheaded by the International Union of Food and Agricultural Workers, also have been calling for a ban on paraquat for years. Farmers and agricultural workers exposed to paraquat during mixing and spraying often experience both immediate toxic effects and long-term health problems. Short-term health effects among paraquat users include eye injury, nosebleeds, irritation and burns to the skin and other parts of the body. Other symptoms of acute poisoning include nausea, vomiting or pains, and difficulty in breathing, and may develop with a delay of two to three days. Chronic exposure to paraquat can affect the lungs, nervous system or brain, skin and reproduction with possible birth defects. Epidemiological studies link the long-term exposure to low doses of paraquat to decreases in lung capacity and the herbicide was associated with an increased risk for developing Parkinson's disease. Animal studies show that paraquat damages dopamine-producing brain cells; insufficient production of dopamine is known to be one of the major factors in the development of Parkinson's disease. Syngenta - A Threat to Sustainable Palm Oil Syngenta AG is applying for Ordinary Membership status within the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO), which would give it voting rights within the body. The RSPO is an association created by organizations involved with the global supply chain for palm oil. With requests for sustainably produced palm oil coming initially from big buyers in Europe , the RSPO's principal objective is development of a credible definition of sustainable palm oil production and implementation of practices that comply with this definition. (See http://www.sustainable-palmoil.org/) Currently Syngenta is only an Affiliate member, a status that does not give them voting rights in RSPO processes. If Syngenta does gain voting rights, it will have greater ability to influence RSPO's processes. This attempt to become a voting member of the RSPO undermines the Roundtable's goal of promoting sustainable production of palm oil. Direct involvement in the RSPO of agro-chemical companies like Syngenta that produce and resist attempts to eliminate dangerous pesticides from global supply chains is a threat to workers' health and the environment. It would seriously undermine the credibility of RSPO in promoting sustainable palm oil production. http://ga4.org/pesticideactionnet/alert-description.html?alert_id=3750539 PAN ALERT: Say NO! to Chemical Giant Syngenta! Syngenta is the world's largest producer of paraquat, one of the most widely used and extremely hazardous pesticides used on palm oil plantations. Now Syngenta has applied for voting membership in the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO), an international effort to support development of a credible definition of sustainable palm oil production and implementation of practices that comply with this definition. Agricultural workers, farmers, public health experts, and
[Biofuel] Hunger Due to Injustice, Not Lack of Food
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=35121 DEVELOPMENT: Hunger Due to Injustice, Not Lack of Food Tito Drago MADRID, Oct 16 (IPS) - Millions of people die of hunger-related causes every year. However, that is not because of actual shortages of food, but is a result of social injustice and political, social and economic exclusion, argue non-governmental organisations that launched a campaign in Spain on World Food Day Monday. Oct.16 was established as World Food Day in 1979 by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), commemorating the agency's Oct. 16, 1945 founding date. Monday also marked the first day of Anti-Poverty Week, which will include events in Spain and around the world to raise awareness of the issue. FAO's slogan for World Food Day this year is Invest in Agriculture for Food Security. But NGOs argue that the problem is not a lack of food production, but of the injustice surrounding access to and use of foods. Theo Oberhuber, head of the Spanish environmental NGO Ecologists in Action (EEA), told IPS that enough food is produced in the world to cover the needs of everyone, so that no one would have to go hungry. But, he added, there are two problems that stand in the way of this. The first is that a large part of all food, whether agricultural products or food obtained from oceans or rivers, goes towards feeding livestock whose meat and by-products are consumed mainly in the countries of the industrialised North. The second, he said, is social injustice. In many countries, the majority of the population cannot afford food, not even food of lesser quality. Olivier Longué, director general of Action Against Hunger in Spain, pointed out to IPS examples of lower-quality food: in Malawi and Guatemala, for instance, corn forms the basis of the subsistence diet, while in the Philippines the staples are corn, potatoes and plantains. Action Against Hunger reported that every four seconds someone in the world dies of hunger-related diseases and that nearly one billion people suffer from hunger around the world. The global NGO also noted that six million children a year die of hunger, which is responsible for half of all deaths of children under five. In addition, many children who survive hunger and malnutrition suffer disabilities for the rest of their lives. The international NGOs Engineers Without Borders, Caritas and Veterinarians Without Borders, along with Prosalus, a Spanish organisation that promotes health care in Africa and Latin America, launched in Spain the campaign Derecho a la Alimentación: Urgente (Right to Food: Urgent), and presented a DVD Monday in which they state that food security cannot be achieved without support for agricultural development. They note that FAO statistics show that more than 70 percent of the people suffering from hunger around the world live in rural areas, where they should be able to feed themselves through agriculture. The campaign is demanding that governments recognise food security as a basic human right, and that they review their policies on the question and promote agricultural development in a framework of environmental sustainability. But the EEA questions FAO's call to Invest in Agriculture for Food Security because of the growing influence of agribusiness and concentration of land. The EEA stresses that more than 70 percent of the global pesticide market is in the hands of six giant agrochemical corporations, of which only three will be left within a few years. The group adds that these companies control a large part of global seed sales in a lucrative captive market, by means of sales of genetically modified (GM) varieties that are resistant to the firms' own herbicides. In addition, the offspring of some GM plants are sterile, which means they cannot be stored to grow future crops. Poor farmers thus become dependent on transnational companies, and are forced to buy new seeds every year. The EEA also points out that the world's 10 biggest food companies account for one-quarter of all food produced worldwide, and 10 large chains account for one-quarter of all food sales. As an example of the consequences of that policy, in Spain, farmers often receive only 25 percent of the end price, says the NGO. If that is the situation in a developed European country, it's not difficult to imagine what happens in countries of the South, where the rural population lives in infrahuman conditions, said Oberhuber. (END/2006) ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
[Biofuel] The Blame Game
http://rightweb.irc-online.org/rw/3588 Right Web | Analysis | The Blame Game Tom Barry, IRC | October 11, 2006 IRC Right Web rightweb.irc-online.org Stumping for Republican candidates across the country in recent weeks, Vice President Dick Cheney has honed in on a particular message: Terrorists are still lethal, still desperately trying to hit us again, and Democrats are no good at security (Washington Post, October 8, 2006). The administration and the Republican Party are again hawking the security issue prior to elections. Not only are they saying that they are the only ones who can be trusted to protect the nation's security, but they are also trying to burnish their own security credentials by tarnishing those of the Clinton administration. As part of this campaign, conservative pundits have attacked the record of former President Bill Clinton, arguing that he missed chances to destroy terrorist networks. During a highly publicized September 24 interview with Fox News' Chris Wallace, Clinton accused Wallace and Fox of undertaking a conservative hit job on his administration's national security record and of neglecting to adequately question President George W. Bush's antiterrorism efforts. Just as the former president thought it necessary to establish the political context for the debate over who bears responsibility for not preventing 9/11, it is also helpful to put the current fear-mongering campaign into recent historical context-especially since none of the pre-9/11 efforts had anything to do with terrorism. Early in his first term, Clinton faced a concerted attack on his administration for being supposedly weak on defense when several hawkish congressional figures and outside pressure groups tried to revive Reagan-era missile defense programs. In May 1993, Clinton's Secretary of Defense Les Aspin produced the administration's first Quadrennial Defense Review, a periodic Pentagon study assessing the country's national defense posture. Hailed by the administration as a bottom-up review of defense needs and priorities, the assessment concluded that plans for a full-blown missile defense system were neither technically feasible, nor financially possible. Aspin ordered the closure of the Pentagon's Strategic Defense Initiative Office, downgrading the plans by assigning them to a new Ballistic Missile Defense Organization. This outraged several hardline defense outfits like the Center for Security Policy (CSP) and High Frontier, as well as the defense lobby led by Lockheed Martin, Boeing, Raytheon, and TRW. With their Republican allies a minority in Congress, the missile defense lobby mobilized a coordinated grassroots congressional and media campaign to boost support for a combination of national and regional missile defense systems. Joining CSP in orchestrating the campaign were a number of other rightist policy outfits, including the American Conservative Union, the S.A.F.E. Foundation, the Coalition to Protect Americans Now, and Americans for Missile Defense, which together represented a formidable coalition of social conservatives, neoconservatives, unionists, and hardline Republican nationalists. The Coalition to Protect Americans Now revived Reagan's window-of-vulnerability claim in its demand to abolish arms control treaties and construct a defense system to protect our families from ballistic missile attack. It sponsored a website featuring a map of the United States where, by selecting a town's location, a reader could receive often misleading information about which countries had or soon supposedly would have the capability to strike it with an intercontinental missile. Further enflaming the hardliners was a 1995 CIA National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) that asserted that apart from Russia or China, no rogue state could possibly pose a long-range missile threat to the United States before 2010. In response, congressional hawks, who after the 1996 elections controlled both houses of Congress, promoted a Team B-type evaluation of the NIE, resulting in the creation of a blue-ribbon panel known as the Gates Commission (after its chairman, former CIA Director Robert Gates). In its 1996 report, the commission concluded that the technical obstacles facing rogue states in developing intercontinental missile capability were even greater than those described by the CIA. Unsatisfied with this outcome, the peace-through-strength lobby pushed their congressional allies to establish various independent commissions. Congressional figures affiliated with CSP successfully lobbied for the creation of two commissions, both to be headed by Donald Rumsfeld, to examine the ballistic missile threat and space-based defense capabilities. The unstated agenda of these commissions was to increase pressure on the Clinton administration to support new weapons programs and substantially increase major military spending. Both of the so-called
[Biofuel] Afghanistan: Five Years Later
http://www.fpif.org/fpiftxt/3597 Foreign Policy In Focus Afghanistan: Five Years Later Stephen Zunes | October 13, 2006 Editor: John Feffer, IRC Foreign Policy In Focus www.fpif.org On the fifth anniversary of the launch of the U.S.-led war against Afghanistan, the Taliban is on the offensive, much of the countryside is in the hands of warlords and opium magnates, U.S. casualties are mounting, and many, if not most, Afghans are actually worse off now than they were before the U.S. invasion. UN figures place Afghan living standards as the worst in the world, outside of the poorest five countries of sub-Saharan Africa, with life expectancy of less than 45 years (compared with 70 years in neighboring Iran). The per capita gross domestic product (GDP) is under $200 (compared with $1650 in Iran). Fewer than three Afghans in 10 are literate, and infant mortality is among the highest in the world. The economy is barely functioning, with the country's 24 million people dependent on foreign aid, the opium trade, and remittances from the five million Afghans living abroad. The U.S.-backed government of President Hamid Karzai has little credibility within the country. Afghans routinely refer to him as the mayor of Kabul, since his authority doesn't extend much beyond the capital city, or more derisively as the assistant to the American ambassador, given his lack of real authority relative to U.S. occupation forces. Historically, Afghans respect strong leaders who can at minimum deliver some degree of security and occasional economic favors. Karzai has thus far been unable to provide either to the vast majority of his country's people. The U.S.-managed presidential elections in 2004 and parliamentary elections last year-organized with very little input from the Afghan people regarding structure or scheduling-were riddled with fraud, including stuffed ballot boxes, vote-buying, intimidation, and multiple voting. U.S. officials actively pressured a number of prominent presidential candidates to drop out of the race to help ensure Karzai's election. Even if the results of the elections were broadly representative of public sentiment, unelected warlords in the provinces make the majority of political decisions that affect people's daily lives. Barnett Rubin, America's foremost scholar on Afghanistan, described the country as not having functioning state institutions. It has no genuine army or effective police. Its ramshackle provincial administration is barely in contact with, let alone obedient to, the central government. Most of the country's meager tax revenue has been illegally taken over by local officials who are little more than warlords with official titles. According to Rubin, the goal of U.S. policy in Afghanistan was not to set up a better regime for the Afghan people, but to recruit and strengthen warlords in its fight against al-Qaida. While women are now allowed to go to school and leave the house unaccompanied by a close male relative-rights denied to them under the Taliban-most women in large parts of Afghanistan are afraid to do so out of fear of kidnapping and rape. Human Rights Watch reports that, despite the ouster of the misogynist Taliban, Violence against women and girls remains rampant. The security situation in the countryside is so bad that groups like Medecins Sans Frontieres-which stayed in Afghanistan throughout the Soviet war and occupation of the 1980s, the civil war and chaos of the early to mid-1990s, and the brutal repression of the Taliban through 2001-have completely withdrawn from the country. Yet the Bush administration continues to be in denial about the worsening situation in Afghanistan. President Bush recently declared that Afghanistan was doing so well that it was inspiring others to demand their freedom. And Vice President Cheney has referred to the rapidly deteriorating Afghan republic as a rising nation. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld earlier described the new Afghanistan as a breathtaking accomplishment and a successful model. Amnesty International reports, however, that during the past year, The government and its international partners remained incapable of providing security to the people of Afghanistan. Absence of rule of law, and a barely functional criminal justice system, left many victims of human rights violations, especially women, without redress. Over 1,000 civilians were killed in attacks by U.S. and Coalition forces and by armed groups. U.S. forces continue to carry out arbitrary arrests and indefinite detentions. The Bush administration has not taken kindly to reports of abuse of prisoners and other violations of international humanitarian law. Last year, angry anti-American demonstrations in Afghan cities protesting abuses of Afghan prisoners by American jailers resulted in U.S.-commanded Afghan police shooting into crowds, leaving 16 dead. Following a Newsweek report of
[Biofuel] Washington State University Finds Toxin, Cancer Link
http://www.precaution.org/lib/06/prn_cancer_toxin_connection.060915.htm Spokesman Review (Spokane, Wash.), September 15, 2006 Washington State University Finds Toxin, Cancer Link Study finds link during pregnancy [Rachel's introduction: Pregnant rats were exposed to high levels of a fungicide commonly used in vineyards. In male offspring and three subsequent male generations of the rats, 85 percent of the animals developed cancer, prostate disease, kidney disease, premature aging or other problems.] By Shawn Vestal New research by Washington State University scientists suggests that a single exposure to environmental toxins during pregnancy can cause cancer, kidney disease and other illnesses for future generations. The research, led by WSU professor Michael Skinner, suggests that environmental pollution could permanently reprogram genetic traits in a family line, creating a legacy of sickness. It follows previous studies in Skinner's lab that showed similar long-term effects from toxins on the reproductive systems of successive generations. It's a new way to think about disease, Skinner said in a WSU news release. If this pans out, it gives us a host of new diagnostic and therapeutic tools. It also provides possible explanations for increases in some diseases, as well as spikes in illness that are tied to a geographical region. And it highlights the potential long-term dangers from environmental pollution, said Skinner, the director of WSU's Center for Reproductive Biology. In the research, pregnant rats were exposed to high levels of a fungicide commonly used in vineyards. In male offspring and three subsequent male generations of the rats, 85 percent of the animals developed cancer, prostate disease, kidney disease, premature aging or other problems. Most of the rats developed more than one illness. The research was published in two papers Thursday in the journal Endocrinology. Skinner's lab has been working on the question of epigenetic inheritance for years, and published research last year that showed toxic exposure during embryonic development could hurt fertility over several generations. Epigenetic inheritance involves chemical modifications in the operation of genes from parent to offspring - changes in which the DNA itself isn't modified, but the way the genes turn off and turn on is affected, WSU said. The new research suggests an environmental toxin can permanently reprogram an inheritable trait. Skinner and a team of WSU researchers exposed pregnant rats to the fungicide vinclozolin during a period when the sex of the rats' offspring was being determined. It's a state of development when embryos are susceptible to genetic reprogramming, WSU said in its news release. The rats were exposed to higher levels of the toxin than are normally present in the environment, and more research is needed to see if lower levels show the same effects. Pregnant rats exposed to the toxin produced male offspring with low sperm counts and high rates of disease. When those rats mated with females that weren't exposed to the fungicide, their male offspring had the same problems -- a situation that persisted through four generations. A human analogy would be if your grandmother was exposed to an environmental toxicant during mid-gestation, you may develop a disease state even though you never had direct exposure, and you may pass it on to your great-grandchildren, Skinner said. Skinner said the findings might be applicable to the study of breast cancer and prostate disease, which are increasing faster than would be expected from genetic changes alone. ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
[Biofuel] A New Standard for Preventing Global Warming
http://www.fpif.org/fpiftxt/3562 Foreign Policy In Focus A New Standard for Preventing Global Warming Hoff Stauffer | October 4, 2006 Editor: John Feffer, IRC Foreign Policy In Focus www.fpif.org The debate in the United States on global climate change is shifting from whether to do something about the problem to what to do.1 Prudent people do not want to risk unacceptable adverse economic impacts, even if they are extremely concerned about global climate change. On the other side, equally prudent people do not want to risk accomplishing too little. The debate is stymied, even though several bills on global warming have been introduced into Congress. There will be no climate change legislation coming out of my committee this year, Senator Pete Domenici (R-NM) recently announced. Frankly, I don't know how to write it, and I don't think anybody does.2 The conventional wisdom focuses on cap and trade, also known as tradable emissions permits. This system sets a cap on total emissions, distributes by allocation or auction to market participants emission allowances (or tradable permits) equal to the cap, and then requires participants to have an allowance for every unit of pollutant they emit. Participants must buy allowances if they don't have enough, and they may sell them if they have more than they need. The Kyoto protocol, for instance, has instituted a cap-and-trade system for greenhouse gases (GHGs), and the system has been successfully used for reducing sulfur dioxide emissions from existing power plants in the United States. But this conventional focus on cap and trade is inhibiting progress on combating global warming. The inherent problems with the approach are too formidable. I t is extremely difficult to figure out the economic and environmental effects of an economy-wide cap-and-trade system for GHGs. To avoid negative economic impact, most such cap-and-trade proposals are extremely modest and thus would likely accomplish very little. Also, cap and trade would not work well on a global basis. Given the irreconcilable problems with cap and trade, we need to transcend the conventional wisdom and shift the debate to a more viable strategy. In FPIF's strategic dialogue on this issue, William Nordhaus has reached the same conclusion.3 So has Larry Lohmann, though for somewhat different reasons.4 A more viable strategy relies on performance standards for new sources of GHG emissions. These standards would strictly regulate the pollutants from direct sources of emissions such as power plants and autos. They would also mandate greater efficiency for new capital such as appliances and buildings that rely on fossil fuel combustion for the generation of electricity, heating, and cooling. Standards have been out of favor in recent years because they are not market based. But cap and trade is not purely market-based; it requires a great deal of government intervention. Also, the market plays a very large role in meeting standards most cost-effectively. This debate on government versus market, however, is largely beside the point. Performance standards on new sources have proven effective, as demonstrated by the success of the standards on chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) introduced in the 1980s that reversed the depletion of the earth's ozone layer. Performance standards on new sources-first in the United States and then globally-can eliminate the huge projected increase in global carbon dioxide (CO2)5 emissions by 2050, since new sources are increasingly responsible for global emissions.Also, performance standards could be supplemented by a more narrowly focused cap-and-trade program on existing power plants, which would further reduce global emissions. After 2050, perhaps supplemented by cap and trade (or an equivalent carbon tax), performance standards could reduce carbon emissions still further by continuing to drive and leverage ongoing technological advances. Unlike cap and trade, it is relatively easy to predict the environmental and economic effects of performance standards. Relying on standards would allow substantial progress toward reducing GHGs without unacceptable adverse economic consequences. Finally, performance standards can be more easily applied on a global basis. Unfortunately, the current administration has done very little to address global warming. The proponents of meaningful action have focused on cap-and-trade proposals, which are stalled in Congress. Performance standards can break this deadlock. Why Not Cap and Trade? A cap-and-trade system has the theoretical advantage of reducing pollutants most efficiently. Such a system has worked very well in reducing sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide pollution from existing power plants in the United States.6 However, just because a cap-and-trade system worked well in the relatively narrow context of existing power plants does not mean that it can work well for
Re: [Biofuel] Is there any diesel powered bicycles?
Hello all, Does anyone know of any diesel powered bicycles? Any motors you know of that could be used for a bicycle? I am interested in a motor from 1-2 horsepower. Diesels are heavy motors, because of the high compression. Yanmar air-cooled diesel engines, L-A Series, seven models from 2.5-7.4kW (3.4-10hp) 2Mb pdf: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel_library/yanmar.pdf Even the little one weight 26 kg. HTH. Best Keith Thanks for any help, IBB . $$$$ LARRY KING LIVE Aired May 30, 2005 - 21:00 CNN Transcripts/0505/30/lkl.01.html KING: When do we leave? You expect it in your administration? D. CHENEY: I do. KING: It's not going to be a 10-year event? D. CHENEY: No. ... But I think the level of activity that we see today, from a military standpoint, I think will clearly decline. I think they're in the last throes, if you will, of the insurgency. http://zfacts.com/p/87.htmlhttp://zfacts.com/p/87.html ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
[Biofuel] A New Kind of Neocon?
http://rightweb.irc-online.org/rw/3584 Right Web | Analysis A New Kind of Neocon? Leon Hadar | October 10, 2006 IRC Right Web rightweb.irc-online.org Nikolas Gvosdev, editor of the National Interest, a foreign policy magazine affiliated with the Nixon Center in Washington, DC, has recently been trying to revitalize the stale discourse on U.S. global strategy in the capital of the world's only remaining superpower. Gvosdev, whose magazine has been shaken up by post-Iraq invasion ideological disputes (leading to the departure from its editorial board of neoconservative Charles Krauthammer, as well as ex-neocon Francis Fukuyama), has been holding gatherings that bring together realist and internationalist critics of President George W. Bush's foreign policy agenda to discuss alternative approaches to the Bush administration's neoconservative hegemonic strategy. In late September, the National Interest convened a meeting to consider What a Post-Bush Foreign Policy Might Look Like. Gvosdev invited two foreign policy experts, one a Republican and one a Democrat, to predict how an administration of, say, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) or Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-NY) would change U.S. global strategy, and in particular, whether they would reverse current policies. The conventional wisdom in Washington is that a Republican president like McCain might embrace a Bush lite approach (that's the best-case scenario-some say a Republican super-hawk would try to out-neoconize Bush), and a Democrat like Senator Clinton would adopt more sensible and internationalist diplomacy, à la Bill Clinton. To the surprise of some of those attending the National Interest event, it was the speaker representing the Democratic perspective, Will Marshall, president and founder of the Progressive Policy Institute, who ended up out-neoconizing Bush. Republican Stefan Halper, former official in the Reagan and Bush Senior administrations and a fellow at the Centre of International Studies at Cambridge University, presented a devastating critique of the foreign policy of Bush Junior. That a Republican conservative was urging a more realistic and less interventionist foreign policy and a Democratic liberal was advocating a hegemonic global strategy aimed at strengthening American military presence abroad as well as at promoting democracy worldwide should not shock anyone familiar with the history of U.S. politics and foreign policy. Indeed, as Halper has noted in a book he coauthored with Jonathan Clarke, America Alone: The Neo-Conservatives and the Global Order (2004), many of the neoconservatives who joined the Republican Party at the height of the Cold War had been hawkish liberal Democrats critical of their party for abandoning the interventionist and militarized policies pursued by Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, and Lyndon Johnson and for adopting an isolationist agenda. The neoconservatives accused George McGovern and his supporters of hijacking the Democratic Party's foreign policy and of appeasing the Soviet bloc. Yet the neoconservatives were also very critical of the Realpolitik approach pursued by the Nixon-Kissinger team that created the conditions for détente and arms control agreements with the Soviets and the opening toward China. And moreover, even under Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush-when such figures as Richard Perle, Paul Wolfowitz, and I. Lewis Libby served in top foreign and defense policy jobs-neoconservatives opposed policies that they considered contrary to their staunchly pro-Israel ideas. Such policies included Reagan's decision to withdraw U.S. troops from Lebanon or Bush Senior's pressure on Israel to end its settlement policies and negotiate with the Palestinians. The foreign policy principles espoused by neoconservatives-unilateralist military intervention aimed at establishing U.S. global hegemony, a messianic Wilsonian agenda of spreading democracy worldwide, and a radical pro-Likud Zionist stance-run very contrary to the cautious pursuit of U.S. interests traditionally reflected by conservative and realist Republican foreign policy. Republican and conservative critics of the neoconservatives felt the need to reassess their union with the neoconservatives, which had made sense during the ideological and strategic conflicts with the Communists during the Cold War, but whose impact on U.S. foreign policy, the Republican Party, and the conservative movement proved to be disastrous after 9/11. Critics like Halper argue that neoconservatives seized the Republican Party's diplomatic and national security agenda after 9/11 and persuaded Bush and his advisers to adopt their approach in the Middle East as part of an effort to establish U.S. hegemony and American-style democracy in the region, while also trying to advance Israel's interests there. But if anything, the Iraq misadventure has demonstrated the limitations of American power,
[Biofuel] Ecological and Social Impacts of Fast Growing Timber Plantations and Genetically Engineered Trees
http://globaljusticeecology.org/index.php?name=getreesID=404 Global Justice Ecology Project: GlobalJusticeEcology.org , Hinesburg, VT Ecological and Social Impacts of Fast Growing Timber Plantations and Genetically Engineered Trees (Manuscript to be presented at IUFRO conference.) [Dr. Neil Carman, Sierra Club; Orin Langelle, STOP GE Trees Campaign; Alyx Perry, Southern Forests Network; Anne Petermann, Global Justice Ecology Project; Danna Smith, Esq., Dogwood Alliance; Brian Tokar, Institute for Social Ecology Biotechnology Project;] Abstract: Plantations, as distinct from forests, are uniform agroecosystems that substitute for natural ecosystems and their biodiversity. As such, plantations are frequently associated with negative environmental and social impacts: decrease in water availability, modifications in the structure and composition of soils, depletion of biological diversity, encroachment on indigenous peoples' communities, agricultural lands and forests, and eviction of peasants and indigenous peoples from their lands with loss of livelihoods. --- Around the world people are rising up in opposition to the spread of industrial monoculture tree plantations. In the Southern US, millions of acres of natural forests and wetlands have been converted to industrial tree plantations igniting concern among rural families, hunters, scientists, conservation groups, and even large businesses. In Brazil, plantations are called green deserts, because they destroy biological diversity. In South Africa they are known as green cancer, because of the tendency of the non-native eucalyptus trees to escape the plantations, spread wildly into other areas and wreak ecological havoc, and in Chile plantations are green soldiers, because they stand in straight lines and are steadily and destructively advancing. The establishment of industrial tree plantations has devastated the environment and local communities around the world. Problems associated with industrial tree plantations extend well beyond loss of biodiversity to include socio-economic issues related to flooding, spraying of toxic chemical fertilizers and herbicides in communities, poverty, land ownership and human rights. Not only have industrial tree plantations replaced some of the world's most diverse forests, they have also been the source of social and economic stress in human communities ranging from indigenous cultures in developing countries to rural families living in the developed world. The spread of plantations has been driven by large producers of paper and wood products. Industrial tree plantations are managed intensively with chemical herbicides and fertilizers to accelerate growth rates for maximum production efficiency. To further this process, research and development of genetically engineered (GE) trees is underway and despite uncertainties regarding the impacts, industry appears to be gearing up for the widespread, industrial scale development of GE tree plantations. While these practices may perhaps increase profits for wood and paper products firms, the high economic, ecological and social costs associated with industrial tree plantations are paid by those living in and around large-scale plantations and by society at large. Despite industry claims to the contrary, the current industrial model of plantation forestry is neither economically, socially nor ecologically sustainable. Practices such as the continued conversion of natural forests to plantations, the routine use of toxic chemicals and the introduction of GE trees must be stopped in favor of forestry practices that sustain important ecological functions and local communities. Forestry can and should be practiced responsibly. The Southern U.S. Indisputably the most diverse forests in North America, the temperate forests of the Southern US are recognized by biologists worldwide for their biological richness. Beyond biological diversity, forests in the region help sequester carbon and therefore play a vital role in mitigating global warming. (Songhen and Brown) Besides helping to moderate the Earth's climate, Southern forests help protect drinking water in the most populated region of the US. (US Census Data) Despite their obvious ecological importance, less than 2% of the forests in the South are characterized as strictly or moderately protected. (Conservation Biology Institute) The Southern US is currently the largest wood producing region in the world. (USFS, SFRA 2002) The large-scale production paper and wood products has led to the extensive conversion of natural forests to plantations that are dependent on the routine use of chemical fertilizers and herbicides. Forest trends in the Southern US contradict industry claims that plantations relieve pressure on natural forests and positively influence the economic well-being of rural communites. * In the 1980s and 1990s, nine million acres of the
Re: [Biofuel] The Blame Game
has honed in on HOMED!!! Can't anyone write anymore??? -Miss Grundy Keith Addison wrote: http://rightweb.irc-online.org/rw/3588 Right Web | Analysis | The Blame Game Tom Barry, IRC | October 11, 2006 IRC Right Web rightweb.irc-online.org Stumping for Republican candidates across the country in recent weeks, Vice President Dick Cheney has honed in on a particular message: Terrorists are still lethal, still desperately trying to hit us again, and Democrats are no good at security (Washington Post, October 8, 2006). The administration and the Republican Party are again hawking the security issue prior to elections. Not only are they saying that they are the only ones who can be trusted to protect the nation's security, but they are also trying to burnish their own security credentials by tarnishing those of the Clinton administration. As part of this campaign, conservative pundits have attacked the record of former President Bill Clinton, arguing that he missed chances to destroy terrorist networks. During a highly publicized September 24 interview with Fox News' Chris Wallace, Clinton accused Wallace and Fox of undertaking a conservative hit job on his administration's national security record and of neglecting to adequately question President George W. Bush's antiterrorism efforts. Just as the former president thought it necessary to establish the political context for the debate over who bears responsibility for not preventing 9/11, it is also helpful to put the current fear-mongering campaign into recent historical context-especially since none of the pre-9/11 efforts had anything to do with terrorism. Early in his first term, Clinton faced a concerted attack on his administration for being supposedly weak on defense when several hawkish congressional figures and outside pressure groups tried to revive Reagan-era missile defense programs. In May 1993, Clinton's Secretary of Defense Les Aspin produced the administration's first Quadrennial Defense Review, a periodic Pentagon study assessing the country's national defense posture. Hailed by the administration as a bottom-up review of defense needs and priorities, the assessment concluded that plans for a full-blown missile defense system were neither technically feasible, nor financially possible. Aspin ordered the closure of the Pentagon's Strategic Defense Initiative Office, downgrading the plans by assigning them to a new Ballistic Missile Defense Organization. This outraged several hardline defense outfits like the Center for Security Policy (CSP) and High Frontier, as well as the defense lobby led by Lockheed Martin, Boeing, Raytheon, and TRW. With their Republican allies a minority in Congress, the missile defense lobby mobilized a coordinated grassroots congressional and media campaign to boost support for a combination of national and regional missile defense systems. Joining CSP in orchestrating the campaign were a number of other rightist policy outfits, including the American Conservative Union, the S.A.F.E. Foundation, the Coalition to Protect Americans Now, and Americans for Missile Defense, which together represented a formidable coalition of social conservatives, neoconservatives, unionists, and hardline Republican nationalists. The Coalition to Protect Americans Now revived Reagan's window-of-vulnerability claim in its demand to abolish arms control treaties and construct a defense system to protect our families from ballistic missile attack. It sponsored a website featuring a map of the United States where, by selecting a town's location, a reader could receive often misleading information about which countries had or soon supposedly would have the capability to strike it with an intercontinental missile. Further enflaming the hardliners was a 1995 CIA National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) that asserted that apart from Russia or China, no rogue state could possibly pose a long-range missile threat to the United States before 2010. In response, congressional hawks, who after the 1996 elections controlled both houses of Congress, promoted a Team B-type evaluation of the NIE, resulting in the creation of a blue-ribbon panel known as the Gates Commission (after its chairman, former CIA Director Robert Gates). In its 1996 report, the commission concluded that the technical obstacles facing rogue states in developing intercontinental missile capability were even greater than those described by the CIA. Unsatisfied with this outcome, the peace-through-strength lobby pushed their congressional allies to establish various independent commissions. Congressional figures affiliated with CSP successfully lobbied for the creation of two commissions, both to be headed by Donald Rumsfeld, to examine the ballistic missile threat and space-based defense capabilities. The unstated agenda of these commissions was to increase pressure on the Clinton administration to support new
Re: [Biofuel] Closed-Mindedness (Was Hypnosis as AnesthesiaWasTestimonials as Evidence)
Howdy Mike, MK DuPree wrote: Hi D and Mike...isn't homogenized milk actually the lipid portion of milk, whipped up into incredibly small particles yes that actually scar the lining of the esophagus and arteries, no thereby, allowing cholesterol to more easily coagulate along the linings? no Whether or not it does, I say soy milk. I know I know...tastes terrible, to some. But I only use it on cereals and a couple of desserts. Plenty of other stuff to be drinking, likeuh, waterdistilled of course...I know I know minerals etc etc...hey...distilledperiod...and don't bother me about taste...if you can taste it, it ain't water you're tasting! Yeah, I'm closed minded on this one!! LOL Mike DuPree - Original Message - From: D. Mindock [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To: biofuel@sustainablelists.org mailto:biofuel@sustainablelists.org Sent: Wednesday, October 18, 2006 2:56 AM Subject: Re: [Biofuel] Closed-Mindedness (Was Hypnosis as AnesthesiaWasTestimonials as Evidence) Hi Mike, I think Weston Price would say to drink raw milk. When milk is pastuerized and homogenized, it becomes harmful to the body. So those drinking less of the bad milk in the Harvard study would actually be better off. Myself, I don't drink milk unless I can get it raw and organic. Also, even better, is to add kefir culture to it. I think the Hunzas drink their milk cultured, not straight up. Peace, D. Mindock - Original Message - From: Mike Weaver [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To: biofuel@sustainablelists.org mailto:biofuel@sustainablelists.org Sent: Tuesday, October 17, 2006 6:12 PM Subject: Re: [Biofuel] Closed-Mindedness (Was Hypnosis as Anesthesia WasTestimonials as Evidence) From the can't-help-but-stick-my-toe-in dept. Caveat: No proof other than what I've read over the years. It has always seemed to me that the maladies that people suffer from are in large part due to environment/lifestyle. In the third world, disease is far more likely to be as a result of the lack of food and adequate nutrition, wheras in the developed world, we suffer from the diseaeses of affluence: diabetis being the one that comes to mind, along with obesity-related ailments such as heart disease, high blood pressure, strokes and so on. Smoking is another factor. Another interesting item, from Harvard University's website: In particular, these studies suggest that high calcium intake doesn't actually appear to lower a person's risk for osteoporosis. For example, in the large Harvard studies of male health professionals and female nurses, individuals who drank one glass of milk (or less) per week were at no greater risk of breaking a hip or forearm than were those who drank two or more glasses per week.(2, 3 http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/calcium.html#references) Other studies have found similar results. It is odd human beings are the only animal that develop a disease if they don't eat the milk of another species. Dogs don't need cat milk. bob allen wrote: Howdy Terry, Terry Dyck wrote: HI Bob, The Western world has the highest rate of Cancer, Heart disease, Diabetes, Respiratory problems and other ailments in the world. oh really, and your source for these facts is? are the data age adjusted, etc. and just what other ailments are included. This is the issue I have with you and others, you make what I feel are overly broad statements as fact, without little or no support. So give me reference or two so I can draw my own conclusions. or how about just statistic at a time to discuss. How about age adjusted cancer rates? (age adjusting is necessary as cancer is essentially inevitable, the longer you live the more likely you are to get cancer. show me the data please. On the other hand there is a valley in the middle of the Himalayan mountains called Hunzaland that is an almost disease free area. I have heard this canard before. I googled hunzaland and about the only thing I got were people hawking their particular cure The Apricot Kernel Anti-Cancer Theory http://www.jesus-is-savior.com/land_of_hunza.htm or how about 160+ year olds http://www.arthritis-nature-cure.com/people.htm do really believe that? really, you don't think someone could be less than forthright to make a point about a product the promote? or maybe it's the magnetized water http://www.stopcancer.com/magnetpHFoundation2.htm A pure organic food diet and almost no pollution could be the reason for people having good health. or it could all be a bunch of hype. How do we know with out better documentation? -- Bob Allen, http://ozarker.org/bob
Re: [Biofuel] Closed-Mindedness (Was Hypnosis asAnesthesiaWasTestimonials as Evidence)
Mike, You wrote: "Plenty of other stuffto be drinking, likeuh, waterdistilled of course...I know I know minerals etc etc...hey...distilledperiod..." Please, no. This goes back many years, butI heard a presentation by a Dr. Shapiro of the Univ. of Pittsburgh School of Public Health in which he suggested that softened, or worse, distilled water increases one's risk of cardiovascular disease. His conclusion was based on studies of communities that "softened" their water and then went back to "hard" water. There was an increase in cardiovascular disease in the years following treatment to soften the water. There was a decrease in cardiovascular disease in the years following reverting back to hard water. (Zinc may have been the key element.) I believe that this is why cold water lines for drinking and food prep .. bypass water softeners when the water softeners are properly installed. There has been much discussion about practices that grow healthful foods, and processing that compromises the healthfulness of our food. Please consider the water you drink as well. If you do not have access to good, healthful water, and distilled is your best option, I wonder if there is a way to restore it to a more natural state. I know that some beer brewers living in municipalities that soften their water, add something to restore the minerals. Wishing you good health, Tom - Original Message - From: MK DuPree To: biofuel@sustainablelists.org Sent: Wednesday, October 18, 2006 10:39 AM Subject: Re: [Biofuel] Closed-Mindedness (Was Hypnosis asAnesthesiaWasTestimonials as Evidence) Hi D and Mike...isn't homogenized milk whipped up into incredibly small particles that actually scar the lining of the esophagus and arteries, thereby, allowing cholesterol to more easily coagulate along the linings? Whether or not it does, I say "soy milk." I know I know...tastes terrible, to some. But I only use it on cereals and a couple of desserts. Plenty of other stuffto be drinking, likeuh, waterdistilled of course...I know I know minerals etc etc...hey...distilledperiod...and don't bother me about taste...if you can taste it, it ain't water you're tasting! Yeah, I'm closed minded on this one!! LOL Mike DuPree - Original Message - From: "D. Mindock" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: biofuel@sustainablelists.org Sent: Wednesday, October 18, 2006 2:56 AM Subject: Re: [Biofuel] Closed-Mindedness (Was Hypnosis as AnesthesiaWasTestimonials as Evidence) Hi Mike, I think Weston Price would say to drink raw milk. When milk is pastuerized and homogenized, it becomes harmful to the body. So those drinking less of the bad milk in the Harvard study would actually be better off. Myself, I don't drink milk unless I can get it raw and organic. Also, even better, is to add kefir culture to it. I think the Hunzas drink their milk cultured, not straight up. Peace, D. Mindock - Original Message - From: "Mike Weaver" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: biofuel@sustainablelists.org Sent: Tuesday, October 17, 2006 6:12 PM Subject: Re: [Biofuel] Closed-Mindedness (Was Hypnosis as Anesthesia WasTestimonials as Evidence) From the can't-help-but-stick-my-toe-in dept. Caveat: No proof other than what I've read over the years. It has always seemed to me that the maladies that people suffer from are in large part due to environment/lifestyle. In the third world, disease is far more likely to be as a result of the lack of food and adequate nutrition, wheras in the developed world, we suffer from the diseaeses of affluence: diabetis being the one that comes to mind, along with obesity-related ailments such as heart disease, high blood pressure, strokes and so on. Smoking is another factor. Another interesting item, from Harvard University's website: In particular, these studies suggest that high calcium intake doesn't actually appear to lower a person's risk for osteoporosis. For example, in the large Harvard studies of male health professionals and female nurses, individuals who drank one glass of milk (or less) per week were at no greater risk of breaking a hip or forearm than were those who drank two or more glasses per week.(2, 3 http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/calcium.html#references) Other studies have found similar results. It is odd human beings are the only animal that develop "a disease" if they don't eat the milk of another species. Dogs don't need cat milk. bob allen wrote:Howdy Terry,Terry Dyck wrote:HI Bob,The Western world has the highest rate of Cancer, Heart disease, Diabetes,Respiratory problems and other ailments in the world.oh really, and your source for these "facts" is? are the data ageadjusted, etc. and just what "other" ailments are included. This is theissue
Re: [Biofuel] The Blame Game
Well...whether he homed or honed it, according to this articleCheney hasbeen focusing on a message that betrays the historical work of his party, or at least certain members of his party. Thanks Keith. Now, according to my Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, Eleventh Edition: "honed": to make more acute, intense, or effective; and "homed": to proceed or direct attention toward an objective. Given the context in which the word in the article is used, I vote for "honed." However, from the article itappearsthe present administration has honed its' public policy abilities and homed in hard on my country's pocketbook for spending on stuff thatbenefits a few at the expense of many...as usual. - Original Message - From: "Mike Weaver" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: biofuel@sustainablelists.org Sent: Wednesday, October 18, 2006 11:44 AM Subject: Re: [Biofuel] The Blame Game "has honed in on" HOMED!!! Can't anyone write anymore??? -Miss Grundy Keith Addison wrote: http://rightweb.irc-online.org/rw/3588Right Web | Analysis |The Blame GameTom Barry, IRC | October 11, 2006IRC Right Webrightweb.irc-online.orgStumping for Republican candidates across the country in recent weeks, Vice President Dick Cheney has honed in on a particular message: Terrorists are "still lethal, still desperately trying to hit us again," and Democrats are no good at security (Washington Post, October 8, 2006). The administration and the Republican Party are again hawking the security issue prior to elections. Not only are they saying that they are the only ones who can be trusted to protect the nation's security, but they are also trying to burnish their own security credentials by tarnishing those of the Clinton administration.As part of this campaign, conservative pundits have attacked the record of former President Bill Clinton, arguing that he missed chances to destroy terrorist networks. During a highly publicized September 24 interview with Fox News' Chris Wallace, Clinton accused Wallace and Fox of undertaking a "conservative hit job" on his administration's national security record and of neglecting to adequately question President George W. Bush's antiterrorism efforts.Just as the former president thought it necessary to establish the political context for the debate over who bears responsibility for not preventing 9/11, it is also helpful to put the current fear-mongering campaign into recent historical context-especially since none of the pre-9/11 efforts had anything to do with terrorism.Early in his first term, Clinton faced a concerted attack on his administration for being supposedly weak on defense when several hawkish congressional figures and outside pressure groups tried to revive Reagan-era missile defense programs. In May 1993, Clinton's Secretary of Defense Les Aspin produced the administration's first Quadrennial Defense Review, a periodic Pentagon study assessing the country's national defense posture. Hailed by the administration as a "bottom-up review" of defense needs and priorities, the assessment concluded that plans for a full-blown missile defense system were neither technically feasible, nor financially possible. Aspin ordered the closure of the Pentagon's Strategic Defense Initiative Office, downgrading the plans by assigning them to a new Ballistic Missile Defense Organization.This outraged several hardline defense outfits like the Center for Security Policy (CSP) and High Frontier, as well as the defense lobby led by Lockheed Martin, Boeing, Raytheon, and TRW. With their Republican allies a minority in Congress, the missile defense lobby mobilized a coordinated grassroots congressional and media campaign to boost support for a combination of national and regional missile defense systems. Joining CSP in orchestrating the campaign were a number of other rightist policy outfits, including the American Conservative Union, the S.A.F.E. Foundation, the Coalition to Protect Americans Now, and Americans for Missile Defense, which together represented a formidable coalition of social conservatives, neoconservatives, unionists, and hardline Republican nationalists.The Coalition to Protect Americans Now revived Reagan's window-of-vulnerability claim in its demand to abolish arms control treaties and construct a defense system to "protect our families from ballistic missile attack." It sponsored a website featuring a map of the United States where, by selecting a town's location, a reader could receive often misleading information about which countries had or soon supposedly would have the capability to strike it with an intercontinental missile.Further enflaming the hardliners was a 1995 CIA National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) that asserted that apart from Russia or China, no rogue state could possibly pose a long-range missile threat to the United States before 2010. In response, congressional hawks, who after the 1996
Re: [Biofuel] The Blame Game
1. That's not a real dictionary. 2. It wasn't honed as in he honed his argument, it was honed in. He meant homed in on. -Miss Grundy MK DuPree wrote: Well...whether he homed or honed it, according to this article Cheney has been focusing on a message that betrays the historical work of his party, or at least certain members of his party. Thanks Keith. Now, according to my _Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, Eleventh Edition_: honed: to make more acute, intense, or effective; and homed: to proceed or direct attention toward an objective. Given the context in which the word in the article is used, I vote for honed. However, from the article it appears the present administration has honed its' public policy abilities and homed in hard on my country's pocketbook for spending on stuff that benefits a few at the expense of many...as usual. - Original Message - From: Mike Weaver [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To: biofuel@sustainablelists.org mailto:biofuel@sustainablelists.org Sent: Wednesday, October 18, 2006 11:44 AM Subject: Re: [Biofuel] The Blame Game has honed in on HOMED!!! Can't anyone write anymore??? -Miss Grundy Keith Addison wrote: http://rightweb.irc-online.org/rw/3588 Right Web | Analysis | The Blame Game Tom Barry, IRC | October 11, 2006 IRC Right Web rightweb.irc-online.org Stumping for Republican candidates across the country in recent weeks, Vice President Dick Cheney has honed in on a particular message: Terrorists are still lethal, still desperately trying to hit us again, and Democrats are no good at security (Washington Post, October 8, 2006). The administration and the Republican Party are again hawking the security issue prior to elections. Not only are they saying that they are the only ones who can be trusted to protect the nation's security, but they are also trying to burnish their own security credentials by tarnishing those of the Clinton administration. As part of this campaign, conservative pundits have attacked the record of former President Bill Clinton, arguing that he missed chances to destroy terrorist networks. During a highly publicized September 24 interview with Fox News' Chris Wallace, Clinton accused Wallace and Fox of undertaking a conservative hit job on his administration's national security record and of neglecting to adequately question President George W. Bush's antiterrorism efforts. Just as the former president thought it necessary to establish the political context for the debate over who bears responsibility for not preventing 9/11, it is also helpful to put the current fear-mongering campaign into recent historical context-especially since none of the pre-9/11 efforts had anything to do with terrorism. Early in his first term, Clinton faced a concerted attack on his administration for being supposedly weak on defense when several hawkish congressional figures and outside pressure groups tried to revive Reagan-era missile defense programs. In May 1993, Clinton's Secretary of Defense Les Aspin produced the administration's first Quadrennial Defense Review, a periodic Pentagon study assessing the country's national defense posture. Hailed by the administration as a bottom-up review of defense needs and priorities, the assessment concluded that plans for a full-blown missile defense system were neither technically feasible, nor financially possible. Aspin ordered the closure of the Pentagon's Strategic Defense Initiative Office, downgrading the plans by assigning them to a new Ballistic Missile Defense Organization. This outraged several hardline defense outfits like the Center for Security Policy (CSP) and High Frontier, as well as the defense lobby led by Lockheed Martin, Boeing, Raytheon, and TRW. With their Republican allies a minority in Congress, the missile defense lobby mobilized a coordinated grassroots congressional and media campaign to boost support for a combination of national and regional missile defense systems. Joining CSP in orchestrating the campaign were a number of other rightist policy outfits, including the American Conservative Union, the S.A.F.E. Foundation, the Coalition to Protect Americans Now, and Americans for Missile Defense, which together represented a formidable coalition of social conservatives, neoconservatives, unionists, and hardline Republican nationalists. The Coalition to Protect Americans Now revived Reagan's window-of-vulnerability claim in its demand to abolish arms control treaties and construct a defense system to protect our families from ballistic missile attack. It sponsored a website featuring a map of the United States where, by selecting a town's location, a reader could receive often misleading information about which countries had or soon supposedly would have the capability to strike it with an intercontinental missile.
Re: [Biofuel] Closed-Mindedness (Was HypnosisasAnesthesiaWasTestimonials as Evidence)
Hi Tom...thanks for this post and especially your concern. I probably shouldn't have said anything. We've owned a distiller for years and have always enjoyed how the distilled water seems tomake more pronounced the flavors of coffee, frozen oranje juice, various broths, stews, etc etc, and oh yeah, one of my favorites--scotch (single malt...Glen Moray, 12 yearneat...two fingers...in the eveningdelicious). Never worry about (or taste) anythingbetween the water and our drink.But then I've always wondered about any leaching of stuff from my body, especially the bad stuff, because lord knows I dump enough vitamins and minerals in there to replace many times over whatever of the good stuff might be leached. Of course, I walk daily, getting ready to go out now in fact and keep myself in shape in part that way. I don't know, annual visits to my traditional westernized doc keep producing "healthy" results, except I have struggled with cholesterol until the last exam which was preceded by flax seed, soy milk, and increased exercise for several months prior to the exam and my cholesterol(the bad stuff) was way down, although the good stuff wasn'thigh enough for me, but my doc said it was okay. Anyway,I'm going intoall this totry andround outa big picture.I know our water is a major piece of our overall health picture andmy choices dictatedistilled. I don't trust the bottled water stuff. I sure as heck don't trust the tap water.Yourspeaker's artificially softened water claims don't surprise me at all. I suppose I couldgo out and buyreverse osmosis which just sounds too weird to me. In the end, I suppose I have tonod to the "Bob" in me and request the data, the research, the unequivocal science that says, hey buddy, distilled bad. Even then, like I've said up front, I'd still be closed minded on this. Something about distilled water is just too simple, too clean, too clear, and really refreshing. But Tom, again, I mean this when I say it, thank you, thank youfor your concern. It means everything to me. I hope you believe me. Mike DuPree - Original Message - From: Thomas Kelly To: biofuel@sustainablelists.org Sent: Wednesday, October 18, 2006 1:14 PM Subject: Re: [Biofuel] Closed-Mindedness (Was HypnosisasAnesthesiaWasTestimonials as Evidence) Mike, You wrote: "Plenty of other stuffto be drinking, likeuh, waterdistilled of course...I know I know minerals etc etc...hey...distilledperiod..." Please, no. This goes back many years, butI heard a presentation by a Dr. Shapiro of the Univ. of Pittsburgh School of Public Health in which he suggested that softened, or worse, distilled water increases one's risk of cardiovascular disease. His conclusion was based on studies of communities that "softened" their water and then went back to "hard" water. There was an increase in cardiovascular disease in the years following treatment to soften the water. There was a decrease in cardiovascular disease in the years following reverting back to hard water. (Zinc may have been the key element.) I believe that this is why cold water lines for drinking and food prep .. bypass water softeners when the water softeners are properly installed. There has been much discussion about practices that grow healthful foods, and processing that compromises the healthfulness of our food. Please consider the water you drink as well. If you do not have access to good, healthful water, and distilled is your best option, I wonder if there is a way to restore it to a more natural state. I know that some beer brewers living in municipalities that soften their water, add something to restore the minerals. Wishing you good health, Tom - Original Message - From: MK DuPree To: biofuel@sustainablelists.org Sent: Wednesday, October 18, 2006 10:39 AM Subject: Re: [Biofuel] Closed-Mindedness (Was Hypnosis asAnesthesiaWasTestimonials as Evidence) Hi D and Mike...isn't homogenized milk whipped up into incredibly small particles that actually scar the lining of the esophagus and arteries, thereby, allowing cholesterol to more easily coagulate along the linings? Whether or not it does, I say "soy milk." I know I know...tastes terrible, to some. But I only use it on cereals and a couple of desserts. Plenty of other stuffto be drinking, likeuh, waterdistilled of course...I know I know minerals etc etc...hey...distilledperiod...and don't bother me about taste...if you can taste it, it ain't water you're tasting! Yeah, I'm closed minded on this one!! LOL Mike DuPree - Original Message - From: "D. Mindock" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: biofuel@sustainablelists.org Sent: Wednesday, October 18, 2006 2:56 AM
Re: [Biofuel] The Blame Game
Aint even gonna touch references to my dic...otherwise, ok, I give, kind of...what about dropping the words "in on"?There's a case forCheney having honed his presentmessage to mask the real message his ilk have homed in on during the present and past administrations. Rufus - Original Message - From: "Mike Weaver" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: biofuel@sustainablelists.org Sent: Wednesday, October 18, 2006 3:18 PM Subject: Re: [Biofuel] The Blame Game 1. That's not a real dictionary. 2. It wasn't "honed" as in "he honed his argument", it was "honed in". He meant "homed in on." -Miss Grundy MK DuPree wrote: Well...whether he homed or honed it, according to this article Cheney has been focusing on a message that betrays the historical work of his party, or at least certain members of his party. Thanks Keith. Now, according to my _Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, Eleventh Edition_: "honed": to make more acute, intense, or effective; and "homed": to proceed or direct attention toward an objective. Given the context in which the word in the article is used, I vote for "honed." However, from the article it appears the present administration has honed its' public policy abilities and homed in hard on my country's pocketbook for spending on stuff that benefits a few at the expense of many...as usual. - Original Message - From: "Mike Weaver" [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To: biofuel@sustainablelists.org mailto:biofuel@sustainablelists.org Sent: Wednesday, October 18, 2006 11:44 AM Subject: Re: [Biofuel] The Blame Game "has honed in on" HOMED!!!Can't anyone write anymore??? -Miss Grundy Keith Addison wrote: http://rightweb.irc-online.org/rw/3588 Right Web | Analysis | The Blame Game Tom Barry, IRC | October 11, 2006 IRC Right Web rightweb.irc-online.org Stumping for Republican candidates across the country in recent weeks, Vice President Dick Cheney has honed in on a particular message: Terrorists are "still lethal, still desperately trying to hit us again," and Democrats are no good at security (Washington Post, October 8, 2006). The administration and the Republican Party are again hawking the security issue prior to elections. Not only are they saying that they are the only ones who can be trusted to protect the nation's security, but they are also trying to burnish their own security credentials by tarnishing those of the Clinton administration. As part of this campaign, conservative pundits have attacked the record of former President Bill Clinton, arguing that he missed chances to destroy terrorist networks. During a highly publicized September 24 interview with Fox News' Chris Wallace, Clinton accused Wallace and Fox of undertaking a "conservative hit job" on his administration's national security record and of neglecting to adequately question President George W. Bush's antiterrorism efforts. Just as the former president thought it necessary to establish the political context for the debate over who bears responsibility for not preventing 9/11, it is also helpful to put the current fear-mongering campaign into recent historical context-especially since none of the pre-9/11 efforts had anything to do with terrorism. Early in his first term, Clinton faced a concerted attack on his administration for being supposedly weak on defense when several hawkish congressional figures and outside pressure groups tried to revive Reagan-era missile defense programs. In May 1993, Clinton's Secretary of Defense Les Aspin produced the administration's first Quadrennial Defense Review, a periodic Pentagon study assessing the country's national defense posture. Hailed by the administration as a "bottom-up review" of defense needs and priorities, the assessment concluded that plans for a full-blown missile defense system were neither technically feasible, nor financially possible. Aspin ordered the closure of the Pentagon's Strategic Defense Initiative Office, downgrading the plans by assigning them to a new Ballistic Missile Defense Organization. This outraged several hardline defense outfits like the Center for Security Policy (CSP) and High Frontier, as well as the defense lobby led by Lockheed Martin, Boeing, Raytheon, and TRW. With their Republican allies a minority in Congress, the missile defense lobby mobilized a coordinated grassroots congressional and media campaign to boost support for a combination of national and regional missile defense systems. Joining CSP in orchestrating the campaign were a number of other rightist policy outfits, including the American Conservative Union, the S.A.F.E. Foundation, the Coalition to Protect Americans Now, and Americans for Missile Defense, which together represented a formidable coalition of social conservatives, neoconservatives, unionists, and hardline Republican nationalists. The Coalition to Protect Americans Now
Re: [Biofuel] Closed-Mindedness (WasHypnosisasAnesthesiaWasTestimonials as Evidence)
my family grew up on one well. my grandfather owns all the land around him and us, and we (4 households) are all connected to the same well and pump, and it is straight out of the bedrock, some of the sweetest, clearest, coldest, water i have ever drank, or will probably ever find. the only bad thing about it is the sulfur smell- we could never talk grandpa into buying a pressure tank with a spoon in it. i dont knowhow much the water actually helped, but as a kid i was only ever sick aboutonce a year (flu season, and no, the fluvaccine didnt help any, so i never bothered after the first one). JasonICQ#: 154998177MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: MK DuPree To: biofuel@sustainablelists.org Sent: Wednesday, October 18, 2006 4:00 PM Subject: Re: [Biofuel] Closed-Mindedness (WasHypnosisasAnesthesiaWasTestimonials as Evidence) Hi Tom...thanks for this post and especially your concern. I probably shouldn't have said anything. We've owned a distiller for years and have always enjoyed how the distilled water seems tomake more pronounced the flavors of coffee, frozen oranje juice, various broths, stews, etc etc, and oh yeah, one of my favorites--scotch (single malt...Glen Moray, 12 yearneat...two fingers...in the eveningdelicious). Never worry about (or taste) anythingbetween the water and our drink.But then I've always wondered about any leaching of stuff from my body, especially the bad stuff, because lord knows I dump enough vitamins and minerals in there to replace many times over whatever of the good stuff might be leached. Of course, I walk daily, getting ready to go out now in fact and keep myself in shape in part that way. I don't know, annual visits to my traditional westernized doc keep producing "healthy" results, except I have struggled with cholesterol until the last exam which was preceded by flax seed, soy milk, and increased exercise for several months prior to the exam and my cholesterol(the bad stuff) was way down, although the good stuff wasn'thigh enough for me, but my doc said it was okay. Anyway,I'm going intoall this totry andround outa big picture.I know our water is a major piece of our overall health picture andmy choices dictatedistilled. I don't trust the bottled water stuff. I sure as heck don't trust the tap water.Yourspeaker's artificially softened water claims don't surprise me at all. I suppose I couldgo out and buyreverse osmosis which just sounds too weird to me. In the end, I suppose I have tonod to the "Bob" in me and request the data, the research, the unequivocal science that says, hey buddy, distilled bad. Even then, like I've said up front, I'd still be closed minded on this. Something about distilled water is just too simple, too clean, too clear, and really refreshing. But Tom, again, I mean this when I say it, thank you, thank youfor your concern. It means everything to me. I hope you believe me. Mike DuPree - Original Message - From: Thomas Kelly To: biofuel@sustainablelists.org Sent: Wednesday, October 18, 2006 1:14 PM Subject: Re: [Biofuel] Closed-Mindedness (Was HypnosisasAnesthesiaWasTestimonials as Evidence) Mike, You wrote: "Plenty of other stuffto be drinking, likeuh, waterdistilled of course...I know I know minerals etc etc...hey...distilledperiod..." Please, no. This goes back many years, butI heard a presentation by a Dr. Shapiro of the Univ. of Pittsburgh School of Public Health in which he suggested that softened, or worse, distilled water increases one's risk of cardiovascular disease. His conclusion was based on studies of communities that "softened" their water and then went back to "hard" water. There was an increase in cardiovascular disease in the years following treatment to soften the water. There was a decrease in cardiovascular disease in the years following reverting back to hard water. (Zinc may have been the key element.) I believe that this is why cold water lines for drinking and food prep .. bypass water softeners when the water softeners are properly installed. There has been much discussion about practices that grow healthful foods, and processing that compromises the healthfulness of our food. Please consider the water you drink as well. If you do not have access to good, healthful water, and distilled is your best option, I wonder if there is a way to restore it to a more natural state. I know that some beer brewers living in municipalities that soften their water, add something to restore the minerals. Wishing you good health, Tom - Original Message - From: MK
[Biofuel] Help with Processor
Hi to every one, I am trying to build a processor but having difficulty in finding a heater element that is not made of copper? I am in the UK, I have been told, in Holland they make a brass emersion heater element but I can not find a supplier here in the UK. Any suggestions anybody? Mark _ Be the first to hear what's new at MSN - sign up to our free newsletters! http://www.msn.co.uk/newsletters ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
Re: [Biofuel] Closed-Mindedness (Was Hypnosis as AnesthesiaWasTestimonials as Evidence)
i dont suppose anyone actually went and gave the cows a health exam? i really doubt that they were in any condition to be giving healthy milk to begin with. a typical dairy farm is usually a reeking, filthy, hell-hole with dirty cows on poorly drained concrete, and being fed the weakest of slop because its CHEAPER. i would be thankful for heat treated, sanitized (un)milk as long as places like that continue to operate the way they do. Jason ICQ#: 154998177 MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: bob allen [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: biofuel@sustainablelists.org Sent: Wednesday, October 18, 2006 8:25 AM Subject: Re: [Biofuel] Closed-Mindedness (Was Hypnosis as AnesthesiaWasTestimonials as Evidence) D. Mindock wrote: Hi Mike, I think Weston Price would say to drink raw milk. When milk is pastuerized and homogenized, it becomes harmful to the body. So those drinking less of the bad milk in the Harvard study would actually be better off. Myself, I don't drink milk unless I can get it raw and organic. http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2006/10/13/food/0_03_1110_12_06.txt Raw organic milk that sickened California children now OK http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2003280686_spinach29m.html Two children have been sickened in another episode of E. coli infection, this time from drinking raw milk from a Whatcom County dairy. A 5-year-old boy from Issaquah was still hospitalized with the illness Thursday, while an 8-year-old girl from Snohomish County was recovering at home, said state health officials and a spokeswoman for a store that sold the milk. http://www.sciencedaily.com/upi/index.php?feed=Sciencearticle=UPI-1-20061013-01412200-bc-britain-tb.xml Small TB outbreak traced to raw milk Also, even better, is to add kefir culture to it. I think the Hunzas drink their milk cultured, not straight up. Peace, D. Mindock - Original Message - From: Mike Weaver [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: biofuel@sustainablelists.org Sent: Tuesday, October 17, 2006 6:12 PM Subject: Re: [Biofuel] Closed-Mindedness (Was Hypnosis as Anesthesia WasTestimonials as Evidence) From the can't-help-but-stick-my-toe-in dept. Caveat: No proof other than what I've read over the years. It has always seemed to me that the maladies that people suffer from are in large part due to environment/lifestyle. In the third world, disease is far more likely to be as a result of the lack of food and adequate nutrition, wheras in the developed world, we suffer from the diseaeses of affluence: diabetis being the one that comes to mind, along with obesity-related ailments such as heart disease, high blood pressure, strokes and so on. Smoking is another factor. Another interesting item, from Harvard University's website: In particular, these studies suggest that high calcium intake doesn't actually appear to lower a person's risk for osteoporosis. For example, in the large Harvard studies of male health professionals and female nurses, individuals who drank one glass of milk (or less) per week were at no greater risk of breaking a hip or forearm than were those who drank two or more glasses per week.(2, 3 http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/calcium.html#references) Other studies have found similar results. It is odd human beings are the only animal that develop a disease if they don't eat the milk of another species. Dogs don't need cat milk. bob allen wrote: Howdy Terry, Terry Dyck wrote: HI Bob, The Western world has the highest rate of Cancer, Heart disease, Diabetes, Respiratory problems and other ailments in the world. oh really, and your source for these facts is? are the data age adjusted, etc. and just what other ailments are included. This is the issue I have with you and others, you make what I feel are overly broad statements as fact, without little or no support. So give me reference or two so I can draw my own conclusions. or how about just statistic at a time to discuss. How about age adjusted cancer rates? (age adjusting is necessary as cancer is essentially inevitable, the longer you live the more likely you are to get cancer. show me the data please. On the other hand there is a valley in the middle of the Himalayan mountains called Hunzaland that is an almost disease free area. I have heard this canard before. I googled hunzaland and about the only thing I got were people hawking their particular cure The Apricot Kernel Anti-Cancer Theory http://www.jesus-is-savior.com/land_of_hunza.htm or how about 160+ year olds http://www.arthritis-nature-cure.com/people.htm do really believe that? really, you don't think someone could be less than forthright to make a point about a product the promote? or maybe it's the magnetized water http://www.stopcancer.com/magnetpHFoundation2.htm A pure organic food diet and almost no pollution
Re: [Biofuel] The Blame Game
Insufferable pedants unite! Webster's dictionary just means...it's called Webster's. Big whoop! I can print on up and call it Webster's. The OED is the only dictionary worth using, IMHO. You could say Cheney honed his argument. You couldn't say he honed in on his argument. MK DuPree wrote: Aint even gonna touch references to my dic...otherwise, ok, I give, kind of...what about dropping the words in on? There's a case for Cheney having honed his present message to mask the real message his ilk have homed in on during the present and past administrations. Rufus - Original Message - From: Mike Weaver [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To: biofuel@sustainablelists.org mailto:biofuel@sustainablelists.org Sent: Wednesday, October 18, 2006 3:18 PM Subject: Re: [Biofuel] The Blame Game 1. That's not a real dictionary. 2. It wasn't honed as in he honed his argument, it was honed in. He meant homed in on. -Miss Grundy MK DuPree wrote: Well...whether he homed or honed it, according to this article Cheney has been focusing on a message that betrays the historical work of his party, or at least certain members of his party. Thanks Keith. Now, according to my _Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, Eleventh Edition_: honed: to make more acute, intense, or effective; and homed: to proceed or direct attention toward an objective. Given the context in which the word in the article is used, I vote for honed. However, from the article it appears the present administration has honed its' public policy abilities and homed in hard on my country's pocketbook for spending on stuff that benefits a few at the expense of many...as usual. - Original Message - From: Mike Weaver [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To: biofuel@sustainablelists.org mailto:biofuel@sustainablelists.org mailto:biofuel@sustainablelists.org Sent: Wednesday, October 18, 2006 11:44 AM Subject: Re: [Biofuel] The Blame Game has honed in on HOMED!!! Can't anyone write anymore??? -Miss Grundy Keith Addison wrote: http://rightweb.irc-online.org/rw/3588 Right Web | Analysis | The Blame Game Tom Barry, IRC | October 11, 2006 IRC Right Web rightweb.irc-online.org Stumping for Republican candidates across the country in recent weeks, Vice President Dick Cheney has honed in on a particular message: Terrorists are still lethal, still desperately trying to hit us again, and Democrats are no good at security (Washington Post, October 8, 2006). The administration and the Republican Party are again hawking the security issue prior to elections. Not only are they saying that they are the only ones who can be trusted to protect the nation's security, but they are also trying to burnish their own security credentials by tarnishing those of the Clinton administration. As part of this campaign, conservative pundits have attacked the record of former President Bill Clinton, arguing that he missed chances to destroy terrorist networks. During a highly publicized September 24 interview with Fox News' Chris Wallace, Clinton accused Wallace and Fox of undertaking a conservative hit job on his administration's national security record and of neglecting to adequately question President George W. Bush's antiterrorism efforts. Just as the former president thought it necessary to establish the political context for the debate over who bears responsibility for not preventing 9/11, it is also helpful to put the current fear-mongering campaign into recent historical context-especially since none of the pre-9/11 efforts had anything to do with terrorism. Early in his first term, Clinton faced a concerted attack on his administration for being supposedly weak on defense when several hawkish congressional figures and outside pressure groups tried to revive Reagan-era missile defense programs. In May 1993, Clinton's Secretary of Defense Les Aspin produced the administration's first Quadrennial Defense Review, a periodic Pentagon study assessing the country's national defense posture. Hailed by the administration as a bottom-up review of defense needs and priorities, the assessment concluded that plans for a full-blown missile defense system were neither technically feasible, nor financially possible. Aspin ordered the closure of the Pentagon's Strategic Defense Initiative Office, downgrading the plans by assigning them to a new Ballistic Missile Defense Organization. This outraged several hardline defense outfits like the Center for Security Policy (CSP) and High Frontier, as well as the defense lobby led by Lockheed Martin, Boeing, Raytheon, and TRW. With their Republican allies a minority in Congress, the missile defense lobby mobilized a coordinated grassroots
Re: [Biofuel] Carbon Freeze?
i wonder if there is a way to combine nuclear waste (cesium, ytterbium, iodine, cobalt, iridium, and strontium? from wikipedia) with carbon. do you suppose the waste could be stabilized, and the carbon locked up for keeps that way? Jason ICQ#: 154998177 MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: Keith Addison [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: biofuel@sustainablelists.org Sent: Wednesday, October 18, 2006 11:00 AM Subject: [Biofuel] Carbon Freeze? http://eatthestate.org/11-03/CarbonFreeze.htm (October 12, 2006) Carbon Freeze? Recently I've been reading Revenge of Gaia by James Lovelock. Though it sounds like a science fiction novel (and some will critique it that way), it is in fact an impassioned plea for recognizing the depth of the climate crisis and a call to action. Gaia, or the notion of a living planet Earth, was proposed by Lovelock in the 1960s when he was a planet scientist for NASA looking at the inert atmosphere of Mars. It occurred to him that life itself on Earth was manipulating the atmosphere to its own benefit. While the Earth Science community has now recognized that our planet does indeed self-regulate its temperature and composition, it shies away from Lovelock's contention that there is an active, willful component to Gaia. Now Lovelock is back, arguing that the regulating mechanisms are failing; in fact, that Gaia has a fever and is raising her temperature to get rid of us. As anthropomorphic as this notion is, Lovelock at 82 is no crackpot. I recently saw him at the University Bookstore, and he comes across as the genteel but sharp-witted English scientist that he is. As a fellow of the Royal Society, Britain's most prestigious science organization, he is on top of the latest climate science. And unlike most scientists, he feels that his objectivity is not compromised by speaking out. Much of the science in the book is familiar: the hockey-stick-like rise in global temperatures in recent years, the dramatic loss of ice in Greenland and the Antarctic and Arctic, the melting permafrost, etc. But Lovelock adds some new twists and goes beyond the smooth and linear temperature increases that characterize the IPCC predictions. For Lovelock, discontinuities and tipping points in the form of sudden temperature rises will bring irreversible change and add up to a bleak future where humanity itself is threatened. Lovelock advances the notion that the Earth is returning to a new hot state, about eight degrees Centigrade warmer, that will last a hundred thousand years or more. Such an episode did occur about 55 million years ago, when massive methane releases overwhelmed the planet. As corroborating evidence that we could enter a new hot state, Lovelock points to his computer simulations that mimic algae growth in the oceans. According to his model, when carbon dioxide levels begin to exceed about 500 parts per million, the ocean algae with their ability to absorb carbon and promote cloud cover become extinct, leading to an abrupt jump in global temperature of around eight degrees. This sort of temperature jump would turn much of the planet into scrub and desert, which together with massive flooding would lead to a catastrophic die-off in the human population. To be sure, these sorts of predictions are speculative at this stage. The new IPCC report is due out next year (and it is rumored to be frightening). But it would be foolish to ignore the possibility that letting carbon dioxide levels rise to 500 ppm would put the lives of billions of people at risk. (Note, according to Paul Roberts' The End of Oil, that even if we stabilized carbon emissions at current levels--a carbon freeze--we will reach 520 ppm by 2100. If we do nothing, we will hit 550 ppm by mid-century.) Even if we have already passed a point of no return, Lovelock advocates replacing our fossil fuels as soon as possible to slow the temperature increases and to buy us more time. He proposes a range of alternative energies, including nuclear fission, until we can develop nuclear fusion, which is still decades away from feasibility, if at all. Getting off of fossil fuels may be easier than Lovelock thinks. He seems to be unaware of peaking global oil supplies. Retired Princeton geology professor Ken Deffeyes is still sticking to his December 2005 prediction for global peak oil. His new evidence? New data from the US Energy Information Administration that world crude oil production peaked at 85.1 million barrels a day last December and then declined to 84.3 million barrels this past June. (www.energybulletin.net/20518.html). A temporary downturn, perhaps. (Chris Skrebowski, editor of Petroleum Review, with his field-by-field analysis, still sticks to his 2010/2011 peak.) Meanwhile knowledge of the coming energy crisis seems scant in Seattle. Portland and San Francisco city councils have already passed Peak Oil resolutions, setting up
[Biofuel] A heavy blow for wind power - Calgary Herald - 2006.10.16
http://www.canada.com/calgaryherald/news/calgarybusiness/story.html?id=8 e468c7b-94c7-4ce2-8ede-5806b1ab1b60k=69214 A heavy blow for wind power Cap on generation 'stalls the business' Geoffrey Scotton Calgary Herald Wednesday, October 18, 2006 As much as $6 billion in Alberta wind power proposals are in limbo and could be lost as a result of an arbitrary cap on wind power projects imposed this year, an electricity conference was told Tuesday. Also, lack of progress in developing a longer-term regime for wind power integration and the transmission lines to carry it is becoming a serious issue, delegates heard. It basically has stalled the business of wind in Alberta, Claude Mindorff, president of West WindEau Inc., told a Canadian Energy Research Institute's conference on electricity. West WindEau has plans for a $400-million windfarm near Medicine Hat, but it and others have been stymied by a cap Mindorff said came out of nowhere. In May, citing a potential for reliability problems for the provincial network, the Alberta Electric System Operator (AESO) -- which oversees the electricity market and transmission network in Alberta -- surprised the industry by announcing that wind power generation in Alberta, currently at about 300 megawatts (MW) of capacity, would be capped indefinitely at 900 MW. However, there are proposals for about 3,000 MW of projects above and beyond the ones already lined up and paid up to meet the 900 MW mark. This is costing developers a lot of money to sit back and wait. There is over $6 billion stuck in a nice red box, said Mindorff. John Kehler, who oversees wind power for the Alberta Electric System Operator, told the conference held in Calgary that the issues are difficult to resolve. Among the challenges are the variability of wind power, which the AESO believes will have an impact on system reliability above a certain threshold. Windpower is a very complex issue, said Kehler, the AESO's senior technical specialist. I've been around for 30 years and it's one of the more challenging issues I've seen. We need to move at the right pace (and) we need to integrate wind power in a fair, balanced and reliable manner. However, wind power industry players say the AESO is moving too slowly and is understaffed; they argue the solutions to integration issues are both already known and affordable, and they believe billions of dollars in potential generation projects are in danger. There is some frustration with the go-slow type of approach, said Kevin Van Koughnett, an executive of TransAlta Corp. unit VisionQuest WindElectric who spoke on behalf of the Canadian Wind Energy Association. He noted Alberta is the only jurisdiction in Canada that has imposed a cap on wind power, and that in the next few months Alberta will lose its title as Canada's leader in wind energy as its pioneering sector is eclipsed by development in Ontario and Quebec. If you look at the amount out there potentially in this province, there's probably $5 billion or more of wind farm development that now is stalled or precluded. We, from an industry point of view, have never understood why you impose a cap, putting up a stop sign, stalling out the industry, said Van Koughnett. Mindorff said the situation is absurd. Some people call it a threshold, some people call it a cap, some people call it a moratorium, and effectively if you're not in the 900-megawatt queue . . . you're out of luck, he said. You can't connect no matter how good your wind resources are, no matter whether or not you have a contract to sell energy. In this deregulated market, you're not allowed to connect -- and that bothers some of us immensely, he added. Mindorff also emphasized that even a large number of the projects that are within the 900 MW limit can't get on line because of inadequate transmission infrastructure, particularly in the southeast. The AESO has $1 billion in transmission projects planned or underway across Alberta, but that will essentially only stabilize the existing system without allowing significant new generation. Of those that have actually paid their money under the 900 megawatt queue, 375 megawatts are stranded, waiting for some type of transmission upgrade to allow them to connect, said Mindorff. So, even though you're allowed to connect under the current threshold, they can't connect. Kellan Fluckiger, executive director of the electricity division at the Alberta Department of Energy, said he has faith in the AESO and believes solutions will be found before the 900 MW cap is even reached, which could happen as early as late 2007. I don't think anyone at the AESO is trying to say, 'Stop wind,' Fluckiger told the Herald. We certainly are not interested in damping the signal for alternative and renewable investment at all. But, at the same time, we have to deal with the fact that each technology brings its challenges. One of the challenges is how do you integrate the variability -- and you have to
[Biofuel] recent study of bio fuel energetics; abstract
Forwarding from another list. Darryl == From the Cover BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES / SOCIAL SCIENCES / ECOLOGY / SUSTAINABILITY SCIENCE-SS Environmental, economic, and energetic costs and benefits of biodiesel and ethanol biofuels Jason Hill* Erik Nelson, David Tilman*,, Stephen Polasky*,, and Douglas Tiffany Departments of *Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior and Applied Economics, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN 55108; and Department of Biology, St. Olaf College, Northfield, MN 55057 Negative environmental consequences of fossil fuels and concerns about petroleum supplies have spurred the search for renewable transportation biofuels. To be a viable alternative, a biofuel should provide a net energy gain, have environmental benefits, be economically competitive, and be producible in large quantities without reducing food supplies. We use these criteria to evaluate, through life-cycle accounting, ethanol from corn grain and biodiesel from soybeans. Ethanol yields 25% more energy than the energy invested in its production, whereas biodiesel yields 93% more. Compared with ethanol, biodiesel releases just 1.0%, 8.3%, and 13% of the agricultural nitrogen, phosphorus, and pesticide pollutants, respectively, per net energy gain. Relative to the fossil fuels they displace, greenhouse gas emissions are reduced 12% by the production and combustion of ethanol and 41% by biodiesel. Biodiesel also releases less air pollutants per net energy gain than ethanol. These advantages of biodiesel over ethanol come from lower agricultural inputs and more efficient conversion of feedstocks to fuel. Neither biofuel can replace much petroleum without impacting food supplies. Even dedicating all U.S. corn and soybean production to biofuels would meet only 12% of gasoline demand and 6% of diesel demand. Until recent increases in petroleum prices, high production costs made biofuels unprofitable without subsidies. Biodiesel provides sufficient environmental advantages to merit subsidy. Transportation biofuels such as synfuel hydrocarbons or cellulosic ethanol, if produced from low-input biomass grown on agriculturally marginal land or from waste biomass, could provide much greater supplies and environmental benefits than food-based biofuels. corn | soybean | life-cycle accounting | agriculture | fossil fuel Contributed by David Tilman, June 2, 2006 Author contributions: J.H., D. Tilman, and S.P. designed ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
Re: [Biofuel] recent study of bio fuel energetics; abstract
everyone has already said corn and soy sucked for a fuel stock- ive actually gotten pretty mouthy about it... Jason ICQ#: 154998177 MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: biofuel@sustainablelists.org Sent: Wednesday, October 18, 2006 7:38 PM Subject: [Biofuel] recent study of bio fuel energetics; abstract Forwarding from another list. Darryl == From the Cover BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES / SOCIAL SCIENCES / ECOLOGY / SUSTAINABILITY SCIENCE-SS Environmental, economic, and energetic costs and benefits of biodiesel and ethanol biofuels Jason Hill* Erik Nelson, David Tilman*,, Stephen Polasky*,, and Douglas Tiffany Departments of *Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior and Applied Economics, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN 55108; and Department of Biology, St. Olaf College, Northfield, MN 55057 Negative environmental consequences of fossil fuels and concerns about petroleum supplies have spurred the search for renewable transportation biofuels. To be a viable alternative, a biofuel should provide a net energy gain, have environmental benefits, be economically competitive, and be producible in large quantities without reducing food supplies. We use these criteria to evaluate, through life-cycle accounting, ethanol from corn grain and biodiesel from soybeans. Ethanol yields 25% more energy than the energy invested in its production, whereas biodiesel yields 93% more. Compared with ethanol, biodiesel releases just 1.0%, 8.3%, and 13% of the agricultural nitrogen, phosphorus, and pesticide pollutants, respectively, per net energy gain. Relative to the fossil fuels they displace, greenhouse gas emissions are reduced 12% by the production and combustion of ethanol and 41% by biodiesel. Biodiesel also releases less air pollutants per net energy gain than ethanol. These advantages of biodiesel over ethanol come from lower agricultural inputs and more efficient conversion of feedstocks to fuel. Neither biofuel can replace much petroleum without impacting food supplies. Even dedicating all U.S. corn and soybean production to biofuels would meet only 12% of gasoline demand and 6% of diesel demand. Until recent increases in petroleum prices, high production costs made biofuels unprofitable without subsidies. Biodiesel provides sufficient environmental advantages to merit subsidy. Transportation biofuels such as synfuel hydrocarbons or cellulosic ethanol, if produced from low-input biomass grown on agriculturally marginal land or from waste biomass, could provide much greater supplies and environmental benefits than food-based biofuels. corn | soybean | life-cycle accounting | agriculture | fossil fuel Contributed by David Tilman, June 2, 2006 Author contributions: J.H., D. Tilman, and S.P. designed ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/ -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.408 / Virus Database: 268.13.5/482 - Release Date: 10/18/2006 -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.408 / Virus Database: 268.13.5/482 - Release Date: 10/18/2006 ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
Re: [Biofuel] Closed-Mindedness (WasHypnosisasAnesthesiaWasTestimonials as Evidence)
An addendum...no water with the scotch...as I said, I drink it "neat" or straight up. Not sure how that got into my thoughts on uses of distilled water...perhaps from memories of an earlier time when I was first acquiring the taste for it with blended Dewar's and water. Ah well...been a weird day today. MD - Original Message - From: MK DuPree To: biofuel@sustainablelists.org Sent: Wednesday, October 18, 2006 4:00 PM Subject: Re: [Biofuel] Closed-Mindedness (WasHypnosisasAnesthesiaWasTestimonials as Evidence) Hi Tom...thanks for this post and especially your concern. I probably shouldn't have said anything. We've owned a distiller for years and have always enjoyed how the distilled water seems tomake more pronounced the flavors of coffee, frozen oranje juice, various broths, stews, etc etc, and oh yeah, one of my favorites--scotch (single malt...Glen Moray, 12 yearneat...two fingers...in the eveningdelicious). Never worry about (or taste) anythingbetween the water and our drink.But then I've always wondered about any leaching of stuff from my body, especially the bad stuff, because lord knows I dump enough vitamins and minerals in there to replace many times over whatever of the good stuff might be leached. Of course, I walk daily, getting ready to go out now in fact and keep myself in shape in part that way. I don't know, annual visits to my traditional westernized doc keep producing "healthy" results, except I have struggled with cholesterol until the last exam which was preceded by flax seed, soy milk, and increased exercise for several months prior to the exam and my cholesterol(the bad stuff) was way down, although the good stuff wasn'thigh enough for me, but my doc said it was okay. Anyway,I'm going intoall this totry andround outa big picture.I know our water is a major piece of our overall health picture andmy choices dictatedistilled. I don't trust the bottled water stuff. I sure as heck don't trust the tap water.Yourspeaker's artificially softened water claims don't surprise me at all. I suppose I couldgo out and buyreverse osmosis which just sounds too weird to me. In the end, I suppose I have tonod to the "Bob" in me and request the data, the research, the unequivocal science that says, hey buddy, distilled bad. Even then, like I've said up front, I'd still be closed minded on this. Something about distilled water is just too simple, too clean, too clear, and really refreshing. But Tom, again, I mean this when I say it, thank you, thank youfor your concern. It means everything to me. I hope you believe me. Mike DuPree - Original Message - From: Thomas Kelly To: biofuel@sustainablelists.org Sent: Wednesday, October 18, 2006 1:14 PM Subject: Re: [Biofuel] Closed-Mindedness (Was HypnosisasAnesthesiaWasTestimonials as Evidence) Mike, You wrote: "Plenty of other stuffto be drinking, likeuh, waterdistilled of course...I know I know minerals etc etc...hey...distilledperiod..." Please, no. This goes back many years, butI heard a presentation by a Dr. Shapiro of the Univ. of Pittsburgh School of Public Health in which he suggested that softened, or worse, distilled water increases one's risk of cardiovascular disease. His conclusion was based on studies of communities that "softened" their water and then went back to "hard" water. There was an increase in cardiovascular disease in the years following treatment to soften the water. There was a decrease in cardiovascular disease in the years following reverting back to hard water. (Zinc may have been the key element.) I believe that this is why cold water lines for drinking and food prep .. bypass water softeners when the water softeners are properly installed. There has been much discussion about practices that grow healthful foods, and processing that compromises the healthfulness of our food. Please consider the water you drink as well. If you do not have access to good, healthful water, and distilled is your best option, I wonder if there is a way to restore it to a more natural state. I know that some beer brewers living in municipalities that soften their water, add something to restore the minerals. Wishing you good health, Tom - Original Message - From: MK DuPree To: biofuel@sustainablelists.org Sent: Wednesday, October 18, 2006 10:39 AM Subject: Re: [Biofuel] Closed-Mindedness (Was Hypnosis asAnesthesiaWasTestimonials as Evidence) Hi D and Mike...isn't homogenized milk whipped up into incredibly small particles that actually
Re: [Biofuel] Help with Processor
Hi to every one, I am trying to build a processor but having difficulty in finding a heater element that is not made of copper? I am in the UK, I have been told, in Holland they make a brass emersion heater element but I can not find a supplier here in the UK. Any suggestions anybody? Mark Hi Mark Brass won't do either, neither will bronze, lead, tin and zinc. Aluminium doesn't react with biodiesel but it does react with lye so you can't use it in a processor. Stainless steel is best. Stainless steel immersion heaters definitely exist, surely obtainable in all countries. Seek and ye shall find. HTH, good luck. Keith ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
Re: [Biofuel] Help with Processor
what about electric water heater elements? you can get them in 120 and 240V models in america, and i think theyre stainless. not exactly what you are looking for, but they can be built into the holding tanks. (a little more work at the front end, but i think it would be worth it long term) Jason ICQ#: 154998177 MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: Keith Addison [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: biofuel@sustainablelists.org Sent: Wednesday, October 18, 2006 10:51 PM Subject: Re: [Biofuel] Help with Processor Hi to every one, I am trying to build a processor but having difficulty in finding a heater element that is not made of copper? I am in the UK, I have been told, in Holland they make a brass emersion heater element but I can not find a supplier here in the UK. Any suggestions anybody? Mark Hi Mark Brass won't do either, neither will bronze, lead, tin and zinc. Aluminium doesn't react with biodiesel but it does react with lye so you can't use it in a processor. Stainless steel is best. Stainless steel immersion heaters definitely exist, surely obtainable in all countries. Seek and ye shall find. HTH, good luck. Keith ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/ -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.408 / Virus Database: 268.13.5/482 - Release Date: 10/18/2006 -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.408 / Virus Database: 268.13.5/482 - Release Date: 10/18/2006 ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
[Biofuel] Major Problems Of Surviving Peak Oil
Major Problems Of Surviving Peak Oil Interesting and scary scenario, regards tallex Major Problems Of Surviving Peak Oil By Norman 18 October, 2006 http://www.countercurrents.org/po-norman181006.htm If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear. - George Orwell Rob Hopkins says in Why the Survivalists Have Got It Wrong that he has very little time for the survivalist response to peak oil, and refers to Preparing for a Crash: Nuts and Bolts by Zachary Nowak. Rob may well be partially right but he, like Zachary Nowak and many other community minded people tend to miss or are just in denial with the true reality of what the effects of Peak Oil will really mean. REPLACEMENT TECHNOLOGY One of the words that seem to go with community is renewable. These words seem to go hand in hand, so let us take a look at them starting with renewable energy. There are many fascinating and exciting renewable energy developments from wind turbines, solar energy and biomass etc. These are all important energy sources for the future and they could help keep the electricity grid going to some degree! The popular assumption is that these renewable energy sources will smoothly replace fossil fuels as these become scarce, thanks to our inherited technological expertise. However, although these all produce electricity they are not liquid fuels. On top of this we must remember that the energy budget must always be positive and output must exceed input. Too much tends to be expected of renewable energy generators today, because the contribution of fossil fuels to the input side is poorly understood. For example, a wind turbine is not successful as a renewable generator unless another similar one can be constructed from its raw materials using only the energy that the first one generates in its lifetime, and still show a worthwhile budget surplus. Or, if corn is grown to produce bioethanol, the energy input to ploughing, sowing, fertilizing, weeding, harvesting and processing the crop must come from the previous year's bioethanol production. Input must also include, proportionately, mining and processing the raw materials and building the machines that do the work, as well as supporting their human operators. There is nothing that can replace cheap oil for price, ease of storage, ease of transportation and sheer volumes in the timeframe we need. SO WHAT ABOUT COMMUNITY. In Powerdown, Richard Heinberg states, Those who already enjoy a measure of self-sufficiency, such as ecovillages and other kinds of sustainable intentional communities will already have some of the skills and experience needed for re-localization. He also goes on to say that, self-sustaining communities may become cultural lifeboats in times to come and that Our society is going to change profoundlythose of us who understand this are in a position to steward that change. We are going to become popular, needed people in our communities. Now this may be true but no matter how prepared an intentional community or organized neighbourhood may be, it will still be adversely impacted in some way. The changes that are about to effect the world will also affect these communities. Experts suggest several possible scenarios for the coming energy decline and any of these scenarios will present significant challenges for intentional communities. Even in the soft landing scenario, there will still be massive structural changes in society and being in debt may be the undoing of many. Common advice among many Peak Oil experts is to get out of debt! Lets say for example, that a community is deeply in debt, and is still paying off its property purchase loans. Lets say the community loses its financial resource base if members lose their jobs or if a weak economy reduces the market for the goods and services the community produces the group could default on its loan payments, and may have its property seized by the bank or other creditors. A property-value crash may worsen the debt situation for intentional communities. If a communitys property value falls below their equity in the property, they wont be able to save themselves from defaulting on loans by selling off their land, which is typically the last resort of farmers in debt. All the shortages and systems failures that can affect mainstream culture can affect intentional communities as well. A community may not have enough foresight, labour, tools, or funds to create alternatives to whatever their members use now for heating, lighting, cooking, refrigeration, water collection, water pumping, and disposal utilization of gray water and human waste. Then theres the matter of community securitya subject many find politically incorrect to even consider. If the government fails; if the law and order system falls apart, there can be various
[Biofuel] interesting video
This kind of animation is produced by game engines. It places "movie" production in the hands of individuals. The production below is an insight into the riots in France. 37Mb Quicktime Kirk http://ia300102.us.archive.org/2/items/thefrenchdemocracy/TheFrenchDemocracy.mov"The French Democracy," released mere weeks after the release of Lionhead's "The Movies," gives evidence for the potential of game movies as commentaries on current events. Inspired by the recent riots in the Parisian suburbs, this movie tells several stories about the victimization of French minority groups through harassment, job discrimination, and daily events and depicts circumstancs that make them feel like second-class citizens. Implicitly, this movie attempts to explain the tensions and emotions that fueled the riots. It also hits a note of deeply-felt sorrow for the loss of historical French ideals such as liberty and fraternity. The English subtitles, obviously written by a non-native writer, lend surprising authenticity and immediacy to the movie. -- HEL"Though 'The French Democracy' is a rough bit of work that might not win over many film critics, some folks are hailing it as a milestone for being the first politically motivated film in this newish and mostly obscure medium, called 'machinima' by its fans. Hugh Hancock, who runs a Web site called Machinima.com, rated the piece as 'a fantastic step forward.'" -- Mike Musgrove, Washington Post (1 Dec. 2005)."This is an original French movie about the recent French riots in the suburbs, it is also fully subtitled in English. A powerful film and very educational!" -- Planet The Movies (25 Nov. 2005)"This is a movie about the recent French riots in suburb. It is fully subtitled in english(sorry for my english, i had some training to do). I hope you will enjoy this movies and have a better understand of what is happening in my country!" -- Koulamata, The Movies website (22 Nov. 2005) All-new Yahoo! Mail - Fire up a more powerful email and get things done faster. ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
[Biofuel] Israel and 9/11
An ignored aspect -K Israel and 9/11http://www.antiwar.com/justin/j030802.html Why keep checking for Mail? The all-new Yahoo! Mail shows you when there are new messages.___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
