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Between illegal settlements, military encroachments and a rigged project approval process, Israel is crushing Palestinian agriculture by denying access to water and things are getting worse.

Source: Israel control of Palestinian water supply hits farmers

This is the reality of access to clean water. It hits to the core of the UN studies about access to clean water.

Water is used in this case as an economic cruise missile. Target the successful farmers and you win the land.

I usually wish everyone the best and honestly I do but maybe there’s something useful about just getting mad too.

Bob

Lawn chemicals, particularly, ones containing 2,4-D, have been linked to at least two types of canine cancers. Studies found that lawn chemicals travel to neighboring yards and inside homes, and chemicals have been found in the urine of dogs whose owners did not spray their lawns. The authors of the studies state how their findings […]

Source: Studies Link Canine Cancers to Lawn Chemicals

I originally saw this story at https://m.facebook.com/groups/982959398459301?view=permalink&id=1669806323107935&fs=2&ref=m_notif&notif_t=group_activity.

There are two general class of “lawn chemicals”: insecticides and herbicides. 2,4-D is an herbicide. It is a plant growth regulator that has been modified with chlorines to cause uncontrolled growth in plants, particularly the class of plants known as broadleaf.

Cancer is uncontrolled growth of animal cells. Genetically we are astoundingly similar to plants we have many many of the same enzyme systems. It’s just that the regulation and control have been modified and subtly changed. It is very likely in my opinion that chemicals we use for destroying anything in our way: weeds, insects, animals such as gophers, are tracked around, spread around, brought into our homes. Payback is a ….

One of my greatest fears is the new class of insecticides known as molt inhibitors. It is my guess that they were behind the micro encephaly in Brazil.

We know very little about how these growth and regulatory systems interact. And what might be the similarities in many cases between insects and us. Almost all insect enzymes have homologs in humans. What do you think the insecticide that targets that enzyme will do to us? And why do we believe that the medical drugs that we take to benefit us have side effects but something that targets an enzyme in an insects nervous system

_and kills it_

can’t have any side effects on our nervous system.

Best to you all
Bob

Finch Frolic Garden

https://www.meetup.com/SanDiegoPermaculture/events/249550662/

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Vegan musician, activist, author, and restaurateur, Moby, is turning his backyard pool into a tree and plant-filled pollinator paradise for bees, butterflies, and other creatures vital to the ecosystem.

Source: Vegan Musician and Activist Moby is Turning His Pool Into a Paradise for Bees

Good for him! Although I certainly wish that I could get information about turning your swimming pool into a pond pool2pond out to more people.

I am sure that it cost him a fair penny to fill in that pool with soil. And he has lost the benefits of that water resource in his backyard for native beneficial insects other than just the honey bees. Also bees need a Non-toxic Water Resource in the summer time in order to cool their hives. My guess is that he’s got a lot of trees and flowers and plants but not a lot of water for the critters. But that’s just a guess.

But again I welcome his beginning work at providing bees and other native pollinators and other beneficial insects a safe habitat in his backyard let’s start adding bats and dragonflies and damselflies and Pacific chorus frogs and so many more to the list.
Best to all
Bob

I have to credit some of my clients who sincerely care about the environment and work with me to create habitat for the native critters.

Here is a 20 second YouTube on why I do it. https://youtu.be/I5vU653XQjU

That little crowned sparrow is not bathing in toxins – algaecide, fungicide, neem oil, etc, etc. These chemical toxins have not dried on it after it has finished bathing. Have not increased their concentrations which the bird then preens from its feathers and _swallows_. These chemicals have not remained on the bird’s feathers and skin.

Why? Because there are no toxic chemicals added in the first place. What a foolish idea to think that simply because you’re not injecting an algaecide or other pesticide directly into an animal with a syringe that it it doesn’t get into their bloodstream.

I have to give this particular client a lot of credit.

Best to you all

Bob
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Ahhhhhhh this might be fun folks. Hopefully this judge can figure out unlike the judge in 2016 that a human cell and a person are two different legal entities.

A federal judge in Washington, D.C. has rejected a motion by Monsanto to dismiss a lawsuit by advocacy groups Beyond Pesticides and the Organic Consumers Association alleging that the labeling on its Roundup weedkiller is misleading.

Source: Judge rejects Monsanto’s bid to toss lawsuit over Roundup label

Is possible that this judge will do everything possible to protect Monsanto but the cracks are starting. That former judge should be removed from the bench in my opinion.

GMO apples that do not brown when exposed to air after being cut are hitting the marketplace. They are created by suppressing the production of an enzyme known as PPO

scholar.google.com/scholar_url?url=https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Piyada_Tantasawat/publication/8411582_Antisense_downregulation_of_polyphenol_oxidase_results_in_enhanced_disease_susceptibili…
This PDF source

www.google.com/search?client=ms-android-hms-tmobile-us&biw=320&bih=257&ei=edTCWsfCJ8SuzwKk1KPICQ&q=polyphenol+oxidase+disease&oq=polyphenol+oxidase+disease&gs_l=mobile-gws-serp.12…2924.14685..159…
Other sources

Polyphenol oxidases (PPOs; EC 1.14.18.1 or EC 1.10.3.2) catalyze the oxidation of phenolics to quinones, highly reactive intermediates whose secondary reactions are responsible for much of the oxidative browning that accompanies plant senescence, wounding, and responses to pathogens.

So the authors of this paper made two plant types both deficient in the PPO enzyme. They then exposed the two plant types to various bacterial pathogens. The results were that the first …

PPO construct exhibited a 55-fold increase in bacterial growth, three times larger lesion area, and ten times more lesions cm)2

The second set of PPO deficient …

plants exhibited 100- fold increases in bacterial growth and ten times more lesions cm)2

Snip

these findings suggest a critical role for PPO-catalyzed phenolic oxidation in limiting disease development.

So your bright looking, clean appearing, pure sort of, non-browning apples are very susceptible to disease and thus have probably been sprayed with several fold the amount of pesticides of even a regular apple. And those who don’t remember the Alar scare in apple juice many years ago might want to look it up :-) Isn’t instant gratification great :-)

Best
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Title: Virus found to adapt through newly discovered path of evolution.

Source: www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/03/180329141037.htm

Petrie and colleagues found that a single gene sometimes yields multiple different proteins. The lambda virus evolved a protein sequence that was prone to structural instability that results in the creation of at least two different host-recognition proteins. Fortunately for the virus — but not its host — these different types of proteins can exploit different locks.

tRNAs were known to do this 10 years ago. It’s a nice experiment, it’s a lovely experiment, but it is not a new type of evolution. It just is that those systems have evolved to be a little sloppy transcriptionally or translationally because “a little sloppy” benefits long term evolution too. It may have been how our immune systems started.

CNN, MSNBC, ABC, NEWSWEEK, Even science magazines want to scream “hey look at me” given any opportunity 😏 Settle down people take it with a grain of salt ☺. And it doesn’t mean that they set out to intentionally deceive you necessarily.

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Where did the news go telling us that we are all going to die of zika? It has served its purpose and is no longer required in the news. City council’s everywhere are buying pesticides and aerial spraying but hiding the fact that they are aerial spraying

Most claim that they are spraying to protect us from zika. However as a microbiologist and molecular geneticist who has researched a fair amount on zika and the brain damage and agree with all the reports that conclude, counter to the CDC, that
zika is not the cause of micro encephaly..

And the aerial spraying blows away the native mosquito predators far quicker than the mosquitoes themselves.
dragonflies-damselflies-and-multi-layer-mosquito-defense/

Sad.
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Monsanto is going beyond GMOs and investing in the gene-editing startup Pairwise. The deal could herald the arrival of the first Crispr produce.

Source: Monsanto is on the verge of producing the first fruit made with a blockbuster gene-editing tool that could revolutionize agriculture

My friends Crispr is just another name for GMO. It is a gene editing tool. And as the old saying goes about how a leopard cannot change its spots, so goes that Monsanto can’t change its GMOs.

But this story was probably paid for in part by Monsanto because it lays the groundwork for Crispr “going beyond GMOs”. You know that Monsanto will threaten anybody now trying to label Crispr products as a GMO.

And some food companies will joyfully now be free of having to label their GMO(Crispr) material as GMO. We need the genetic testing companies.

Good luck to you all
Bob