Re: [Biofuel] More Weird Weather
Hola Robert. Two weeks ago I notice your post, around here in Paraguay we had unusuall storms with heavy rainfall and from another source came more to add to a bigger picture of weird weather, this time from NASA's Earth Observatory I got something disturbing: Retreating Ice and Snow in Greenland http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/images.php3?img_id=17472 Best Regards. Juan -Mensaje original- De: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] nombre de robert and benita rabello Enviado el: martes, 28 de noviembre de 2006 23:11 Para: biofuel@sustainablelists.org Asunto: [Biofuel] More Weird Weather Hello again! I just read in the paper that the dump of snow we got on Sunday broke the standing record for snowfall in a single day, a record that has stood since the late 1800's when local people began recording snowfall. This was followed by arctic outflow, which dropped temperatures precipitously, and guess what--on Monday we set a record for low temperatures! But this climate change stuff isn't real, right? robert luis rabello The Edge of Justice Adventure for Your Mind http://www.newadventure.ca Ranger Supercharger Project Page http://www.members.shaw.ca/rabello/ Information from NOD32 This message was checked by NOD32 Antivirus System for Linux Mail Servers. http://www.eset.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] The Death of a Compost Bin
Kewl! So would I be able to snag a pound of worms from you guys when I have my bin finished? I could barter with B100. Joe Jesse Frayne wrote: Hi Joe, Keith and Tom have this information all covered, but we have a little website here in the 'Smoke that might also be helpful? One of our daughters set up vermiculture bins in her U. of T. rez, (a bin per floor!) transferring hundreds of our red wigglers. The kids have accepted the idea really well. www.city.toronto.on.ca/compost Jesse --- Joe Street [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Luke; Any wisdom to share on the best way to set up a vermicomposter? I'd like to start one and I'd be the type to make my own rather than go out and buy something ready made, but I haven't a clue about the realities of doing it. I have read some info on the web about it though. If you could share some of your first hand knowledge it would be great. Joe Luke Hansen wrote: It sounds like you're all talking about a kinda large-scale operation here, so I'm not sure how useful this will be...but I just built a worm-bin for the place I work, and have one at home as well...and I find that they work faster and better for my composting needs than a conventional composting bin. I crafted my latest bin out of untreated cedar siding leftover from a construction project. However, I suppose that for larger volume applications such as lawn trimmings, I'd second the pallet idea. Good luck, Luke --- Paul S Cantrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Pallets are particularly useful. Usually you can pick up 3 for free and either have an open side or I had some leftover window screen, which allows air flow. Also, if you have room you can get 5 pallets and make a double bin...using a UU shape. On 12/9/06, Tom Irwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Robert, I use wood posts stacked like a log cabin. It´s open on one side. I don´t use treated wood anywhere. So avoid that poison. If the wood rots in time I replace it. Tom Irwin -- From: *robert and benita rabello [EMAIL PROTECTED]* Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: *[Biofuel] The Death of a Compost Bin* Date: *Fri, 08 Dec 2006 17:01:49 -0800* Although I don't do all of my composting in a bin, nearly all of our household table scraps and the entire collection of waste from our bunny cage went into a black plastic compost bin. Please note the past tense verb . . . About a week or so ago, we had a blast of arctic air sweep through this area. Temperatures plummeted and with the outflow winds howling out of the east, windchills of -20 C lasted for two or three days. (I know that some of you further east will probably laugh at this, but for those of us who live near the ocean, -20 is pretty cold!) The moisture in my compost bin expanded as it froze, literally warping or shattering the plastic bin. The whole thing actually fell over this morning. I went out to clean up the mess and found the top third of the contents completely preserved and uncomposted (big surprise, it's been cold, right?), the middle third consisted of a singular mass of partially composted, frozen material, while the bottom third remained warm enough to keep on decomposing. But the composter is toast. I'll have to construct another one because I'm NOT going to use plastic again . . . What do the rest of you use for compost bin construction material? robert luis rabello The Edge of Justice The Long Journey New Adventure for Your Mind http://www.newadventure.ca Ranger Supercharger Project === message truncated === ___ 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/ __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org
Re: [Biofuel] Diesel Motorcycle
Well the Neander would show up in the rear view of some of the jap-scrap out there but not this one... http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7992626224995826148 Check out the speedo.that's MILE PER HOUR baby. What a monster. I used to drive a Ducati 906 and had plenty of high speed thrills but this thing is insane. I bet the Neander would have a similar feel ( in acceleration and torque, definitely not handling ) as the desmo twin which was awesome. Such a broad and smooth power band, nothing like these peaky japanese superbikes that force you to constantly shift up and down to keep on the power curve. Yeah I might be tempted to drive a bike again if I could get a deisel. I'd go for something like that kawi with it's off road capability over a road burner these days.now that I've got my hormones under control.lol Joe Alan Petrillo wrote: chuckle No doubt. Let them. Neanderthals did one thing very well: Survive. And they'd better keep an eye on their rear view, because the Neander will give a lot of them a pretty serious run for the money. Now if they can get the price out of the stratosphere and down where regular people can afford it I'll buy one. Same with that diesel Kawasaki scrambler bike. AP ___ 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] More Weird Weather
Hello all, In Europe, first time never known that swallows are still flying in northern France in mid december. Usually, they're all in South Africa for months. The geese migration only began after the storm last week-end. Not yet snowed below alt.1200m (about 3600ft). Roses are still blooming. My kids had a bath in ocean not far from Nantes for halloween (we usually have chilly equinox storms at this time). Mediteranean mushrooms and insects have reached britanny, Paris and Belgium. Specialists say that for one more degree C°, the climate move 200km to north. So before I normally die, I should see Madrid or Algier climate in Nantes. frantz (where are the icy winters of my youth ?) ___ 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] Diesel Motorcycle
Fast enough to get you a ticket in any state of the union. Most impressive. Kirk Joe Street [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well the Neander would show up in the rear view of some of the jap-scrap out there but not this one... http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7992626224995826148 Check out the speedo.that's MILE PER HOUR baby. What a monster. I used to drive a Ducati 906 and had plenty of high speed thrills but this thing is insane. I bet the Neander would have a similar feel ( in acceleration and torque, definitely not handling ) as the desmo twin which was awesome. Such a broad and smooth power band, nothing like these peaky japanese superbikes that force you to constantly shift up and down to keep on the power curve. Yeah I might be tempted to drive a bike again if I could get a deisel. I'd go for something like that kawi with it's off road capability over a road burner these days.now that I've got my hormones under control.lol Joe Alan Petrillo wrote: No doubt. Let them. Neanderthals did one thing very well: Survive. And they'd better keep an eye on their rear view, because the Neander will give a lot of them a pretty serious run for the money. Now if they can get the price out of the stratosphere and down where regular people can afford it I'll buy one. Same with that diesel Kawasaki scrambler bike. AP ___ 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/ - Access over 1 million songs - Yahoo! Music Unlimited.___ 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] Fwd: Big Pharma Juggernaut Rolls To Victory
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Juggernaut Rolls To Victory Health Freedom Reels Part 1
http://www.truthinwellness.com/articles/health_freedom_reels_pt1.php
Byron J. Richards, CCN, December 11, 2006
Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson not only rolled over in their graves,
they had a stake driven through their coffins by the departing 109th Congress.
Big Pharma is now fully in charge of the FDA. Therapeutic nutrition is now
marked for elimination from the free market. How did this happen? What does
it all mean? Why did the House Democrats, at 3:06 A.M., while Americans slept,
stab our people in the back? It is an ominous sign of things to come.
As the lame duck session drew to a close, it became clear that the
Republicans scorched-earth policy was intended to make it difficult for the
Democrats to get anything done next year. They are hoping to regain voter
confidence by making Democrats look even worse than the Republicans near-total
ineptitude, which is not a very tall order.
However, the Republicans and Democrats were able to agree on several key
points regarding your health: health options for Americans should be curtailed
and the American public should be subjected to massive drug experimentation.
Thus, with little fanfare or reporting by the general media, the Destroy
Effective Supplements and Poison Americans with Biotech Drugs Innovation Act of
2006 (S.666 and HR.1832), was passed in the middle of the night, just as the
lame duck session came to a close.
Americans seem almost numb to the fact that Big Pharma kills several thousand
of us every week. Kudos to the 109th Congress, those numbers will now
dramatically rise.
Big Pharma Now Runs the FDA
Yes, the fox is now officially in charge of the henhouse. Over the objection
of a small handful of Senators Big Pharma couldnt buy, Andrew von Eschenbach,
M.D, was confirmed to head the FDA. His clearly stated agenda is, and always
has been, speeding new and dangerous drugs onto the market with little testing
for safety or effectiveness. Von Eschenbach would like to turn every doctors
office in America into a large clinical trial run by an FDA supercomputer, he
would like a computer chip in your arm, and your DNA in his supercomputer and
if you dont comply you soon wont get medical services (read Fight for Your
Health: Exposing the FDAs Betrayal of America). The experiment, known as the
Critical Path Initiative, is now full steam ahead! Of course, when Americans
are injured and killed, von Eschenbach is pushing heavily to make sure no one
can sue for damages.
Andrew von Eschenbach is up to his eyeballs in Big Pharma connections. As
director of the National Cancer Institute he perverted billions of taxpayer
dollars away from solid science on desperately needed cancer research and into
the coffers of his biotech and pharmaceutical pals, collectively known as
C-Change. Now, he actually wants to turn part of the FDA into a drug company
and even has a name for it, the Reagan-Udahl Center for Biomedical Research.
Big Pharma co-sponsors, Senator Edward Kennedy (D-MA) and Mike Enzi (R-MT), are
attempting to fund his new FDA drug company with taxpayer money, which could
easily be funneled through the National Cancer Institute, into the hands of his
C-Change friends, and then used to pay for FDA drug approvals (S.3807). In
other words, the American taxpayer will soon be slated to pay for the
development of all these new biotech drugs, and then pay exorbitant drug prices
for the privilege of being part of a human experiment.
As temporary head of the FDA, von Eschenbach proved he could adeptly cover
for drug companies, even when they blatantly lied to the FDA! Such was the
case with Trasylol, the Bayer heart bypass drug that needlessly kills and
causes permanent kidney damage, which, thanks to von Eschenbach, is still on
the market injuring Americans this holiday season.
Senator Charles Grassley (R-IA) was hot and heavy on the von Eschenbach
protection agenda for Big Pharma and had placed a hold on his nomination over
von Eschenbachs flagrant violations of law and the FDAs cover-up of fraud
relating to the Ketek antibiotic. Von Eschenbachs utter disdain of
Congressional oversight should be a major concern to all Americans. On
December 7, 2006, this is what Grassley had to say:
People ought to be ashamed of saying Dr. Andrew von Eschenbach has done a
superb job in the position he is currently occupying [acting head of the
FDA].
That is an insult
.In my interactions with the Department of Health and
Human Services and the FDA these last 8 months, I have seen a complete and
utter disrespect for congressional
Re: [Biofuel] More Weird Weather
Juan Boveda wrote: Hola Robert. Two weeks ago I notice your post, around here in Paraguay we had unusuall storms with heavy rainfall We've broken a lot of weather-related records around here this year. Traces of the snowstorm from two weeks ago linger here and there, which is unusual as our mild, coastal climate normally results in snow melt within a day or two. Right now, a fierce wind is blowing outside. I can't remember this much wind since I've lived here. Rain is hammering against my window as I write. and from another source came more to add to a bigger picture of weird weather, this time from NASA's Earth Observatory I got something disturbing: Retreating Ice and Snow in Greenland http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/images.php3?img_id=17472 Sigh . . . Two days ago I was in a coffee shop and overheard a conversation between two men who were scoffing at the concept of climate change. The Al Gore film, An Inconvenient Truth, came up during their discussion. I shook my head at the persistence of denial that seems so pervasive in North American society. Perhaps people will have to experience disaster before they'll be willing to take action. But we've discussed solutions to the climate problem many times in this forum, and most of what can be done in a preventative way is far less painful than the changes that will be foisted upon us if our climate spirals out of the relatively stable conditions that have existed for the past several thousand years. The number one thing involves using LESS energy. Why is that so hard to accept? robert luis rabello The Edge of Justice The Long Journey New Adventure for Your Mind http://www.newadventure.ca Ranger Supercharger Project Page http://www.members.shaw.ca/rabello/ ___ 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] The Death of a Compost Bin
Joe, What a great exchange!! Worms at the ready. Pumpkin soup raising it's head ONE. MORE. TIME! (whew) Jesse --- Joe Street [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kewl! So would I be able to snag a pound of worms from you guys when I have my bin finished? I could barter with B100. Joe Jesse Frayne wrote: Hi Joe, Keith and Tom have this information all covered, but we have a little website here in the 'Smoke that might also be helpful? One of our daughters set up vermiculture bins in her U. of T. rez, (a bin per floor!) transferring hundreds of our red wigglers. The kids have accepted the idea really well. www.city.toronto.on.ca/compost Jesse --- Joe Street [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Luke; Any wisdom to share on the best way to set up a vermicomposter? I'd like to start one and I'd be the type to make my own rather than go out and buy something ready made, but I haven't a clue about the realities of doing it. I have read some info on the web about it though. If you could share some of your first hand knowledge it would be great. Joe Luke Hansen wrote: It sounds like you're all talking about a kinda large-scale operation here, so I'm not sure how useful this will be...but I just built a worm-bin for the place I work, and have one at home as well...and I find that they work faster and better for my composting needs than a conventional composting bin. I crafted my latest bin out of untreated cedar siding leftover from a construction project. However, I suppose that for larger volume applications such as lawn trimmings, I'd second the pallet idea. Good luck, Luke --- Paul S Cantrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Pallets are particularly useful. Usually you can pick up 3 for free and either have an open side or I had some leftover window screen, which allows air flow. Also, if you have room you can get 5 pallets and make a double bin...using a UU shape. On 12/9/06, Tom Irwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Robert, I use wood posts stacked like a log cabin. It´s open on one side. I don´t use treated wood anywhere. So avoid that poison. If the wood rots in time I replace it. Tom Irwin -- From: *robert and benita rabello [EMAIL PROTECTED]* Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: *[Biofuel] The Death of a Compost Bin* Date: *Fri, 08 Dec 2006 17:01:49 -0800* Although I don't do all of my composting in a bin, nearly all of our household table scraps and the entire collection of waste from our bunny cage went into a black plastic compost bin. Please note the past tense verb . . . About a week or so ago, we had a blast of arctic air sweep through this === message truncated === ___ 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/ __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.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] More Weird Weather
Man, It's easy to get a little bit nihilistic and apathetic when you read stuff like this, isn't it! Oh well, just more motivation for me to become carbon negative and to show other folks that it's not impossible... Luke --- Juan Boveda [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hola Robert. Two weeks ago I notice your post, around here in Paraguay we had unusuall storms with heavy rainfall and from another source came more to add to a bigger picture of weird weather, this time from NASA's Earth Observatory I got something disturbing: Retreating Ice and Snow in Greenland http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/images.php3?img_id=17472 Best Regards. Juan -Mensaje original- De: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] nombre de robert and benita rabello Enviado el: martes, 28 de noviembre de 2006 23:11 Para: biofuel@sustainablelists.org Asunto: [Biofuel] More Weird Weather Hello again! I just read in the paper that the dump of snow we got on Sunday broke the standing record for snowfall in a single day, a record that has stood since the late 1800's when local people began recording snowfall. This was followed by arctic outflow, which dropped temperatures precipitously, and guess what--on Monday we set a record for low temperatures! But this climate change stuff isn't real, right? robert luis rabello The Edge of Justice Adventure for Your Mind http://www.newadventure.ca Ranger Supercharger Project Page http://www.members.shaw.ca/rabello/ Information from NOD32 This message was checked by NOD32 Antivirus System for Linux Mail Servers. http://www.eset.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/ Do you Yahoo!? Everyone is raving about the all-new Yahoo! Mail beta. http://new.mail.yahoo.com Cheap talk? Check out Yahoo! Messenger's low PC-to-Phone call rates. http://voice.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/
[Biofuel] a motorbike running with biofuel in the PAris-Dakar race (in french)
http://www.20minutes.fr/articles/2006/12/06/20061206-Lille-Motard-et-apotre-de-l-or-vert.php Motard et apôtre de l'or vert http://www.20minutes.fr/articles/2006/12/06/20061206-Lille-Motard-et-apotre-de-l-or-vert.php 20 Minutes | édition du 06.12.06 Il a troqué son tracteur pour une moto « végétale ». La bonne terre du Pas-de-Calais pour le sable et la caillasse de l'Afrique. Le 6 janvier, Christian Dequidt, 55 ans, reprendra à Lisbonne la route de Dakar, pour une quatrième participation à la course mythique. Preuve que la foi n'a pas abandonné cet agriculteur visionnaire qui, dès 1988, lors de son premier Enduro du Touquet, affrontait les dunes avec une bécane roulant au bioéthanol. Bien avant que les biocarburants ne fassent la une des journaux. Depuis ses premiers tours de roue, le message du paysan-motard de Frévent (Pas-de-Calais) n'a pas changé : les agriculteurs ont leur avenir en main. Ils doivent saisir les opportunités qui leur permettront de continuer à vivre de leur exploitation. « En plus de l'alimentation, les agriculteurs ont une nouvelle mission, le bien-être », affirme-t-il. Pour Christian Dequidt, il faut produire les plantes dont on tirera, demain, les molécules capables de remplacer celles issues de l'industrie du pétrole. Sa moto, une 450 cm3 deux roues motrices, est devenue l'ambassadrice de ses convictions. Un garde-boue en amidon de maïs, un moteur lubrifié à l'huile de colza, une selle fabriquée avec des fibres végétales assurent la promotion des matériaux du futur. « Cela va au-delà des biocarburants. Cette moto représente toute la richesse de l'agriculture », commente Christian Dequidt, ardent défenseur de la chimie verte. Peu à peu, la méfiance des autres concurrents et de la profession agricole a laissé place à l'enthousiasme. Christian Dequidt compte comme partenaire le pôle de compétitivité Industrie et Agro-ressources (IAR) de Picardie et Champagne-Ardenne, qui l'a aidé à concevoir ses équipements bio. A quelques semaines du départ, il est en passe de remporter sa première étape en bouclant son budget de près de 60 000 e. Décomplexé par rapport aux pros, Christian Dequidt espère passer pour la première fois la ligne d'arrivée, sur le lac Rose (Sénégal). Moins pour la performance que « pour faire passer mon message, car rien n'avance sans force d'opinion ». Alors, entre deux arrachages d'endives, il part à l'assaut des dunes de Loon-Plage pour s'entraîner. *Elise Wartelle* ___ 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] Copernicus, Darwin And The Cure For Autistic Economics
More on Autistic and Post-Autistic Economics: http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/msg34132.html [biofuel] The Skeptical Economist - Farley Rewriting the book on economics by Lissa Harris 09 Apr 2003 http://www.btinternet.com/~pae_news/texts/Ackerman1.htm Frank Ackerman, Autistic Economics vs. the Environment post-autistic economics newsletter : issue no. 5, March, 2001 http://www.btinternet.com/~pae_news/texts/Gadrey1.htm Jean Gadrey, Is the Concept of Economic Growth Autistic? post-autistic economics newsletter : issue no. 11, January 30, 2002 http://prorev.com/autistic.htm THE AUTISTIC CONFEDRACY: Why Washington doesn't work by Sam Smith Useful website: http://adbusters.org/metas/eco/truecosteconomics/ True Cost Economics Re ecological economics and eco-economists see list archives: Robert Costanza, Herman Daly, Michael Klare, Joshua Farley, Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen, for instance. http://resourceinsights.blogspot.com/2006/12/copernicus-darwin-and-cu re-for.html Resource Insights, Dec. 3, 2006 Copernicus, Darwin And The Cure For Autistic Economics By Kurt Cobb http://www.reference.com/search?q=autismAutistic children can spend much of their time in a world of elaborate fantasy, emotionally detached from real people and objects. Unfortunately, it is not much of a leap to substitute the words most economists for autistic children in the previous sentence. So apparent has this become that there is a burgeoning movement to establish what is now called a http://www.paecon.net/post-autistic economics to meet the challenges of describing the real social and physical world we live in. This wouldn't matter much were it not for the inordinate say that economists have in shaping public policy of all kinds and at all levels. Those of the post-autistic persuasion say that establishment economists have become a priestly class of sorts that enforces its http://www.reference.com/browse/wiki/Neoclassical_economicsneoclassi cal view on any and all who would dissent. It does this by keeping them http://www.paecon.net/StrangeHistory.htmoff college faculties and out of key policy positions. But as the biosphere presses its limits upon us in the areas of energy, climate, water, soil and pollution, the neoclassical economic view that human ingenuity will allow the species to ignore every other species on the planet and grow the world economy indefinitely has become life threatening, even civilization threatening. The cure for this view was suggested by a dear friend. It is a surprisingly simple move, and one with an impressive pedigree. The Polish astronomer http://www.reference.com/browse/wiki/Nicolaus_CopernicusNicolaus Copernicus was the first to work out how the Earth revolved around the Sun. He thus began a journey for humankind that removed it from the center of the universe and placed it, to borrow the words of environmental education giant, http://www.oberlin.edu/envs/faculty_pages/orr.htmDavid Orr, on a small planet attached to an insignificant star in a backwater galaxy. What Copernicus had done for astronomy, http://www.reference.com/browse/wiki/Charles_DarwinCharles Darwin did for biology. After Darwin humans would no longer be set apart from the animal kingdom. Henceforth, they would be only one of its many inhabitants, buffeted by the same laws of mutation and natural selection as the ape and every other living creature. http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/anthropocentrismAnthropocentr ism in biology was finished. It is now time -- long past time -- for a Copernican/Darwinian revolution in economics in which humans cease to be seen as the privileged species, homo economicus -- at the center of everything and exempt from the limits of the biosphere. Instead, humans need to be placed within the same systems that nourish every plant and animal on Earth. In this case, however, there is a twist. Far from having to realize how insignificant and unexceptional we are, we must come to understand that we have evolved into a different species which http://dieoff.org/page81.htmWilliam Catton Jr. has dubbed homo colossus, a man-tool hybrid capable of destroying the very habitat that sustains us and so many other creatures. The simple fact is that the economy cannot become bigger than the biosphere. (There are, of course, some believers in Star Trek-style fantasies who envision us exploiting and living on other planets. To such people may I suggest that they get started on this project right away since we are running out of time to turn things around here on Earth). http://dieoff.org/page83.htmHumans already consume at least 40 percent of the photosynthetic product of the Earth each year and, that's an estimate from 1986 when the population was 5.5 billion. Now it is 6.5 billion. And it's projected to be close to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_population#Forecast_of_world_popul ation9 billion by 2050. Could we
Re: [Biofuel] Fwd: Big Pharma Juggernaut Rolls To Victory
Well it's not really suprising
Just another reason to take responsibility for our own health
just like we do for our biodiesel
Leo
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Juggernaut Rolls To Victory Health Freedom Reels Part 1
http://www.truthinwellness.com/articles/health_freedom_reels_pt1.php
Byron J. Richards, CCN, December 11, 2006
Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson not only rolled over in their graves,
they had a stake driven through their coffins by the departing 109th Congress.
Big Pharma is now fully in charge of the FDA. Therapeutic nutrition is now
marked for elimination from the free market. How did this happen? What does
it all mean? Why did the House Democrats, at 3:06 A.M., while Americans slept,
stab our people in the back? It is an ominous sign of things to come.
As the lame duck session drew to a close, it became clear that the
Republicans scorched-earth policy was intended to make it difficult for the
Democrats to get anything done next year. They are hoping to regain voter
confidence by making Democrats look even worse than the Republicans near-total
ineptitude, which is not a very tall order.
However, the Republicans and Democrats were able to agree on several key
points regarding your health: health options for Americans should be curtailed
and the American public should be subjected to massive drug experimentation.
Thus, with little fanfare or reporting by the general media, the Destroy
Effective Supplements and Poison Americans with Biotech Drugs Innovation Act of
2006 (S.666 and HR.1832), was passed in the middle of the night, just as the
lame duck session came to a close.
Americans seem almost numb to the fact that Big Pharma kills several thousand
of us every week. Kudos to the 109th Congress, those numbers will now
dramatically rise.
Big Pharma Now Runs the FDA
Yes, the fox is now officially in charge of the henhouse. Over the objection
of a small handful of Senators Big Pharma couldnt buy, Andrew von Eschenbach,
M.D, was confirmed to head the FDA. His clearly stated agenda is, and always
has been, speeding new and dangerous drugs onto the market with little testing
for safety or effectiveness. Von Eschenbach would like to turn every doctors
office in America into a large clinical trial run by an FDA supercomputer, he
would like a computer chip in your arm, and your DNA in his supercomputer and
if you dont comply you soon wont get medical services (read Fight for Your
Health: Exposing the FDAs Betrayal of America). The experiment, known as the
Critical Path Initiative, is now full steam ahead! Of course, when Americans
are injured and killed, von Eschenbach is pushing heavily to make sure no one
can sue for damages.
Andrew von Eschenbach is up to his eyeballs in Big Pharma connections. As
director of the National Cancer Institute he perverted billions of taxpayer
dollars away from solid science on desperately needed cancer research and into
the coffers of his biotech and pharmaceutical pals, collectively known as
C-Change. Now, he actually wants to turn part of the FDA into a drug company
and even has a name for it, the Reagan-Udahl Center for Biomedical Research.
Big Pharma co-sponsors, Senator Edward Kennedy (D-MA) and Mike Enzi (R-MT), are
attempting to fund his new FDA drug company with taxpayer money, which could
easily be funneled through the National Cancer Institute, into the hands of his
C-Change friends, and then used to pay for FDA drug approvals (S.3807). In
other words, the American taxpayer will soon be slated to pay for the
development of all these new biotech drugs, and then pay exorbitant drug prices
for the privilege of being part of a human experiment.
As temporary head of the FDA, von Eschenbach proved he could adeptly cover
for drug companies, even when they blatantly lied to the FDA! Such was the
case with Trasylol, the Bayer heart bypass drug that needlessly kills and
causes permanent kidney damage, which, thanks to von Eschenbach, is still on
the market injuring Americans this holiday season.
Senator Charles Grassley (R-IA) was hot and heavy on the von Eschenbach
protection agenda for Big Pharma and had placed a hold on his nomination over
von Eschenbachs flagrant violations of law and the FDAs cover-up of fraud
relating to the Ketek antibiotic. Von Eschenbachs utter disdain of
Congressional oversight should be a major concern to all Americans. On
December 7, 2006, this is what Grassley had to say:
People ought to be ashamed of saying Dr. Andrew von Eschenbach has done a
superb job in the position he is currently occupying [acting head of the
FDA].
That is an
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