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Source: Dated Sun, Jul 17, 2022 at 6:12 pm PT

https://patch.com/california/oceanside-camppendleton/oceanside-beach-project-appeal-aerial-mosquito-larvicide-alert

The San Diego County Vector Control Program (VCP) will conduct its fifth routine aerial mosquito-fighting larvicide application on ten different Oceanside waterways this coming Wednesday and Thursday. Granules of larvicide will be applied via helicopter to specific waterways known to breed mosquitoes throughout the San Diego region to reduce mosquito breeding and decrease the risk of West Nile virus (WNV) transmission. The larvicide consists of naturally occurring bacteria that target mosquito larvae but are safe for people, pets, plants and wildlife. (Oceanside-Camp Pendleton Patch)

Well heck it’s safe for wildlife so that’s okay right.

Except that it’s _not_ safe for wildlife. I don’t know what dictionary the VCP is using but they apparently have found a different definition of _wildlife_ then is normal. It is not safe for the bees that inhabit these areas it is not safe for the monarch butterflies. And it is particularly not safe for dragonflies or damselflies that inhabit this area. Both dragonflies and damselflies, including their larvae, are excellent mosquito predators. Guess what…. These insecticides kill them. Let’s kill the natural native mosquito predators and then vector control gets to buy more toxins (from the chemical industry reps. at three Martini lunches) to spray in your backyard and tell you what an important job they are doing for you. And please remember that according to the chemical industry Representatives Roundup is safe for people and pets. Completely safe,

And if you’re living outside San Diego county and smirking you probably shouldn’t be because your local vector control is likely doing the same thing. In many cases these vector control bureaucrats have passed rules and legislation that allow them to bypass environmental regulations.

These biocides are also not safe for a variety of aquatic organisms that actually outcompete mosquito larva. So let’s poison the very ecology that could help us, and instead of doing a better job of pouring out standing water in our own backyards let’s aerial spray toxins all over everybody. Think you can grow organic food in your backyard?

Every summer, surges of toxic green muck plague lakes worldwide, sickening hikers who fail to purify drinking water, closing favorite swimming holes, and killing fish. The most feared—and studied—cause of these freshwater “algal” blooms is a genus of cyanobacterium called Microcystis. Its explosive summer growth is thought to be spurred by rising levels of phosphorus, nitrogen, and other nutrients, perhaps from fertilizer run off or other pollution sources. But new research….

Source: To tame lake-fouling algal blooms, try an ecosystem approach

Hey here’s an idea lets stop the runoff.

Watch “Don McLean – Vincent ( Starry, Starry Night) With Lyrics” on YouTube

Catch the breeze and the winter chill in colors…. This is the one of the better music videos of Don McLean’s Vincent I have seen recently. The pictures match well with the lyrics and it had me thinking about how if we had a cataclysmic event such as the asteroid that impacted 65 million years ago — all the artistry of Vincent Van Gogh and Don McLean, as well as _so many others_ Beethoven, Bach, Mozart, thousands of other awesome artists would be gone.

So I’m pushing again for people to consider the idea of: instead of bringing back material from the Moon that would just be of commercial value to the US; instead: take material _to_ the moon and put a library on the moon. Not physical library material, but receivers for electronic data and storage material and even potentially 3D printers to get an electronic backup copy of the art and knowledge of the human race. This would be an outstanding accomplishment in my opinion.

The benefit would also be that the library would be for _all_ the countries of the world. There are over 200 sovereign countries on this little “pale blue dot” , and setting up a Moon based international library with representatives (librarians) from all sovereign countries would start a moon base out on a proper course. It would not be a military base with Freedom, Justice, or Patriot in its name by the United States, it would not be an attempt by Russia or China to counter the US’s attempts at world domination. It would truly be an international accomplishment. It would require librarians at a moon base to sort, categorize, and update material from each of the national libraries of the world. And would allow librarians from all the sovereign countries to come together and participate in a truly international moon base. I fear that the United States will try to militarize space and the moon far more than is good for the world. — It’s that crazy military industrial complex that we have all been warned about :-).
The best to you all.

This production is art. This production is what some artists used to be. The ancient artists Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Rembrandt, Vermeer, Vincent van Gogh used state of the art techniques in construction, chemistry, cameras, mirrors, and many other cutting edge techniques of their time to form their art. This series of productions by Your Dinosaurs Are Wrong (YDAW) is _art_ and is exquisite in the ideas espoused.
You rock YDAW.
But ignore my ranting and please watch the video. https://youtu.be/PRXVIQosRkM
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Jared Wilson’s struggle to keep his John Deere tractors running highlights the stranglehold the company has on the people who produce America’s food.

Source: Farmer Says Dealer Wouldn’t Repair His Tractor Until He Filed FTC Complaint

Just my opinion: but it seems to me that John Deere does not believe in sustainability.

We must do better.

Source: There’s a Major Issue With How We Treat Lab Mice, And It Could Affect Study Results

Over 120 million laboratory rats and mice are used worldwide each year. Many are used to study distressing conditions like cancer, arthritis and chronic pain, and nearly all spend their lives in small, empty box-like cages: a kind of permanent lockdown.

“empty box-like cages: a kind of permanent lockdown”
I can’t tell you how many people I know who are angry that they were inconvenienced by the covid lockdowns and yet are completely indifferent to the suffering of animals who are locked down for _not 2% of their lives but for their entire lives_.

People need to begin to understand how badly our experimental animals are treated. We had to pass a law so that chickens kept for egg laying were given the ability to to spread their wings in the cages that they lived in all their lives! We treat research animals far worse in many cases! The cosmetic industry, the medical industrial complex, and the pesticide industry use many thousands of animals (literally millions worldwide) to test their products. Lab rats and mice are just the tip of the iceberg many of the dogs and cats that are not able to be “sold” as pets are sold to these “research” groups.

That said, the article above also illustrates how the stress that we experience in our lives affects our immune systems. One of the reasons I was upset about the reaction by our governments to covid was how much stress was implicit in their mandates. Be well my friends.

Wetlands are Earth’s most efficient natural storage system for climate-warming carbon dioxide. Human activities such as marsh draining for agriculture and logging are increasingly eating away at saltwater and freshwater wetlands. These vital areas cover only 1% of Earth’s surface but store more t

Source: Earth’s Most Efficient Natural Storage System: Land-Building Marsh Plants Are Champions of Carbon Capture

David Bennett died two months after groundbreaking surgery in which a genetically modified pig’s heart was transplanted into him

Source: Man who received landmark pig heart transplant died of pig virus, surgeon says

@!*$&&@+ &$#$@&+ $$&@#&$$! &@/$*!? Far, far, _far_ worse than Covid insanity in my opinion. This is the first proof I have seen that the concerns about xenografts are real. We’re worried about people living with their animals and creating pandemics of animal flu. And yet Western doctors regularly put _living_ animal tissue into people.

_seriously not a good idea_. http://www.puravidaaquatic.com/wordpress/xenografts/

One of the best descriptions of deep sea thermal vent habitats that I have yet to see. And just as a fun fact notice when they talk about the type of animal that lives at 80° C I think it was an anemone (very close to 200 Fahrenheit! – I was once marked wrong on a biology exam because I said that just because we didn’t know of an animal that would grow\live over 45° C yet didn’t mean one didn’t exist laughing.

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Last year I had a big praying mantis on a little fruit tree and I would regularly go over and try to feed it bugs; caterpillars, things I found eating some of the plants in my garden. When I first started, it would scurry around to the other side of the trunk and I would put the bug on the trunk and walk away trying to keep an eye on what it did and it started over some weeks scurrying back around fairly quickly and grabbing whatever I had put down.

As the weeks progressed, it didn’t run around to the other side of the tree as much. Finally it didn’t run at all and I would hold the bug out wiggling between my fingers and it would take the item from my fingers. It got colder as the year got into November and while it survived several freezing nights, it finally disappeared. I had found one of the egg cases that it had laid but months after it disappeared I found a second egg case. And last night, in April they hatched. I found the frayed egg case :-) I also discovered three of them and got some pictures of this one.
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