Permaculture Blog

With urban nature threatened by pollution, climate change, and habitat loss, the city is making a push to preserve its beautiful biodiversity

Source: L.A. Is Now a Certified Wildlife Habitat. Here’s Why It’s a Big Deal

What a wonderful thing, an entire city. There are probably other cities but I am unfortunately unaware of them. I am focusing on LA. And it is wonderful that the National Wildlife Federation has made this push. Native wildlife really needs clean water too. And in addition LA has plowed under more than 99 percent of its freshwater wetlands in order to build high-rise. La Cienega (one of the major thoroughfares in LA) means the swamp, bog, or wetland. It is gone!

All that freshwater wetland habitat is gone!

Converting your backyard, toxic, chlorinated, chemical cesspool of a swimming pool to a green clean wildlife machine would be an awesome thing to do.

Best to you all.

another excellent video that illustrates why I love biology.

www.PuraVidaAquatic.com 310-429-8477

Please! be carefull out there with your used masks. And share this if you can.
Best to you all

Evolution is _bloody and gory_ .When we look at a beautiful Cheetah cub we never ever see the thousands of cubs dying in the last stages of starvation because they were a hair slower than their brothers or sisters. Social evolution is just as bloody and just as gory.

Source: DESC1 and MSPL Activate Influenza A Viruses and Emerging Coronaviruses for Host Cell Entry

The viral hemagglutinin (HA) and spike (S) surface proteins are responsible for host cell entry of FLUAV (6) and CoVs (7, 8), respectively. Both proteins use their N-terminal surface units, termed HA1 (FLUAV) and S1 (CoVs), to engage cellular receptors, while the C-terminal transmembrane units, termed HA2 (FLUAV) and S2 (CoVs), facilitate fusion of the viral membrane with a host cell membrane—processes that are essential for infectious entry (6,–8). Notably, the HA and S proteins are synthesized as inactive precursors in infected cells and acquire the ability to drive membrane fusion only upon activation by host cell proteases (9, 10).

Take out “host cell” in the last sentence. Almost certainly it doesn’t have to occur in tbe infected host cell.

“Vaccines are miracles,” said Pedro Alonso, the director for the Institute for Global Health of Barcelona, and another stakeholder in the “Decade of Vaccines” program. Yes. And for certain folk, certain insider folk, vaccines are also great economic and political investments.

Source: Anthony Fauci sets stage for mandatory — lucrative! — vacc

Enjoy! Wear a mask. Wear gloves. Don’t worry at all about the state mandating medical procedures. You are all they care about — your safety from the dark unknown. Do not be afraid, you can trust someone else to protect you from the dark unknown.

There is no worry for _your_self, _your_ kids, your_ toilet paper, _your_ food, _your_ livelyhood, _your_ friends, and especially _your_ country. Be proud to be an American . . . . . . . . puppet.

Here is an idea. Any mandatory vaccine can have _no_ associated _proprietary_ research, period, no exceptions. If the state is going to inject anybody against their will, the state and associated industrial minions have to fully disclose every study, every bit of chemical information, every question that shows any problems with it _to everyone_, not just a few industry insiders posing as regulators.

Wouldn’t it be nice if the same idea would apply to any chemical sprayed on more than a hundred acres?

Best

It’s totally unnecessary—and it may even be bad for you.

Source: You Shouldn’t Be Wearing Gloves to Go Grocery Shopping

This novel coronavirus doesn’t enter the body through your hands, so you don’t need any kind of barrier there. If you touch a contaminated surface with gloves, and touch something else, you’re as likely to spread it as you are if you touch things with your bare hands. Maybe even more likely: “The adhesive properties of viruses differ among viruses; it’s possible the coronavirus could adhere to the latex gloves better than it could adhere to your own skin,” says Reynolds. And hands can be effectively washed and used again right away.

The idea that gloves may actually increase the spread hit me like a ton of bricks! Our skin has evolved for Millions of years to protect us against these very viruses. In microbiology classes students are taught that the skin is a microbe defense system on many levels. Much is focused on the actual mechanical and structural components of the skin providing a chainmail armor type defense.

But our skin also extrudes oils and enzymes. The idea above fits in with the concept of the skin being a defense system. And my head exploded when I realized that the enzymes and oils your skin secretes could potentially destroy virus particles.

Therefore, gloves may protect virus smears from our own skin degradation systems and actually increase the spread. In addition many people would be far more careless since they believe that they are protected, and not follow good behavior patterns that would decrease the spread of the virus.

Simply washing your hands kills viruses. Washing your hands washes soap destroyed viruses down the drain. I’ll bet you nobody washes their gloves as often as they would wash their hands. In fact, I’ll bet nobody uses hand sanitizer on their gloves when going between stores or getting into their car. People wearing gloves are potentially making the problem much worse.
People please: slow down, quit thrashing around, and just wash your hands. And if you are me, stop putting your reading glasses in your mouth to hold them after they have slid off the top of your head several times in a row. Handle the ear pieces multiple time while shopping and then stick them in your mouth :-) sheesh, I can be an idiot too. Thank goodness I have an immune system that has spent half a billion years fighting for me.
Best to all.

Academia.edu is a platform for academics to share research papers.

Source: Glyphosate’s Suppression of Cytochrome P450 Enzymes and Amino Acid Biosynthesis by the Gut Microbiome: Pathways to Modern Diseases

Source: COVID Facts that deserve emphasis

He emphasizes, many times, to wash or sterilize your hands and to NOT touch your face. Wearing a plain mask: cloth, inexpensive paper, whatever – is to help you avoid touching your own face, it is not to prevent you from breathing virus out of the air, which is not how most people get sick. Do not wipe amazon boxes, just wash your hands after handling them.

Most people do _not_ want to accept that if they get sick with influenza A, or B, or coronavirus that it’s their _own_ fault. They would much rather believe that somebody else must have coughed or sneezed at them. It _must_ be someone _else’s_ fault. And yet IMO virtually all careful research shows that (like the quote and YouTube say also) it is sticking your fingers in your own mouth that transmits the virus. In animal models where these viruses come from the transmission is virtually always fecal-oral (FO). This actually may be related to the virus causing 50% of people to have mild gastrointestinal issues.
Let me reiterate part of the quote above.

Wearing a plain mask: cloth, inexpensive paper, whatever – is to help you avoid touching your own face, it is not to prevent you from breathing virus out of the air, which is not how most people get sick.

I was the radiation safety officer in two of the labs I worked in. It is amazing how quickly something that is invisible can be spread around the building environment. The fortunate thing with radiation is that you can ultimately detect it. With smears of virus it is impossible to detect in your environment. Even at home one should wash their hands before eating.

The best to everyone. I hope that you are:
1) Keeping your eyes open.
2) Looking at the actual data.
3) Thinking about the actual data.
4) Not panicking.

And one last suggestion: the YouTube video in the source above is quite good overall. And another comment about social interaction and going outside. I apparently disagree somewhat with State and County Medical bureaucrats. I believe that going out into the sunshine even if you are sick is vitally important for killing virus and for your own immune health. If you are sick do it in your own yard, do it away from people, but go outside in the sun.
I don’t watch that much baseball, but canceling daytime baseball games and other daytime activitys IMO did so much harm that it is nearly criminal.

Viruses are not cells and have no metabolism. They cannot repair their genetic material after sunlight damage. All cells; bacteria, our cells, have hundreds if not thousands of mechanisms to repair our DNA. Sunlight is a supreme viral killing mechanism – clothes,hands,face. Set your mask (that you don’t need but it may make you feel better) outside in the sun for an hour each side. If you want to protect yourself wash your hands if you want to protect others _wash your hands_ particularly after using the restroom -and for longer!

Best to all.
Bob

Top political donors of those most fervently pushing regime change in Venezuela have major stakes in Monsanto and Bayer.

Source: Planting the Seeds of Regime Change: How GMO Seeds and Monsanto/Bayer’s “RoundUp” are Driving US Policy in Venezuela

Soon after the new seed law was passed in 2015, the U.S.-backed Venezuelan opposition led by the Roundtable of Democratic Unity (MUD) — a group comprised of numerous U.S.-funded political parties, including Guaidó’s Popular Will — took control of the country’s National Assembly. Until Venezuela’s Supreme Court dissolved the assembly in 2017

Don’t believe all you hear from u.s. papers. ☺

Best to you all.