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Hahahaha loved it. Nice interview. The Monsanto rep is the ultimate snake oil salesman. Do what I say, not what I do.
He says multiple times it’s safe to drink and then refuses to drink it. I’m still laughing. Walks off calling the interviewer a jerk.
Guess –The rep doesn’t even have a clue what irony is. laughing
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Source: http://cavityconservation.com
Very cool video. Bluebirds woodpeckers and more. Click it. It is not long.
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Bob
I have spent 20 years providing non-chemical ponds to my clients all over Southern California. I have never before seen the numbers of dead dragonflies that I have in the last 2 months.
Ecdysteroids are insect moulting and sex hormones. They are members of a complex chemical group known as steroids. Some of the insecticides being used recently target Ecdysteroids. These new insecticides thus disrupt the insects molting ability.
These dead dragonflies have failed to molt correctly. You can see that they were just ready to come out and even have tiny deformed wings. Adults that did manage to come out have deformed wings as well.
In addition these Ecdysteroid targeting pesticides, and related toxins harm the basic food chain in rivers and lakes.
An almost complete, but unfinished form of Ecdysteroids is known as an _ecdysone_. Sort of like a house with the walls up, the roof on, but not finished inside. A chemical that blocks the formation of something, particularly biologically, is an _agonist_. So an _ecdysone agonist_ is a biocide that targets an insect’s ability to molt.
Source: www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24197798 A potent ecdysone agonist, tebufenozide, has recently been developed as a molt-inducing insecticide to control defoliating lepidopterans. As part of continuing research efforts to assess the effectiveness and environmental safety of this material for insect pest management in Canadian forests, tebufenozide (RH-5992-2F) was applied to large lake enclosures and the effects on zooplankton communities were evaluated. There were significant treatment effects at all test concentrations (0.07-0.66 mg L(-1) tebufenozide). Concentration-dependent reductions in the abundance of cladocerans indicated that there were direct toxic effects of tebufenozide on this group of macrozooplankton.
Let me reiterate.
Quote: reductions in the abundance of cladocerans indicated that there were direct toxic effects of tebufenozide on this group of macrozooplankton. End quote
cladocerans, and other macrozooplankton form the basis of most freshwater food chains. I believe that it is likely that the aerial spraying for zika has contaminated freshwater ponds and habitats here in SoCal with these toxic insecticides.
This bill amends the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) and the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (commonly known as the Clean Water Act) to prohibit the Environmental Protection Agency or a state from requiring a permit under the Clean Water Act for a discharge from a point source into navigable waters of a pesticide authorized for sale, distribution, or use under FIFRA, or a residue resulting from the application of the pesticide. Point source pollution is waste discharged from a distinct place, such as a pipe, channel, or tunnel.
Source: H.R.897 – 114th Congress (2015-2016): Zika Vector Control Act
OMG. It would… prohibit the Environmental Protection Agency or a state from requiring a permit under the Clean Water Act for a discharge …of a pesticide … or a residue resulting from the application of the pesticide.
Sigh. It would block even the requiring of a permit to spray virtually anything.
Sponsor: Rep. Gibbs, Bob [R-OH-7] (Introduced 02/11/2015)
A Republican from Ohio.
Ohio: a notable hotbed of zika prevalence and infections.
Checkout
https://m.facebook.com/groups/982959398459301?view=permalink&id=1106856622736244&fs=2
total of 11,944 pregnant women with ZVD were reported in Colombia, with 1484 (12%) of these cases confirmed on RT-PCR assay. In a subgroup of 1850 pregnant women, more than 90% of women who were reportedly infected during the third trimester had given birth, and no infants with apparent abnormalities, including microcephaly, have been identified.
Source: Zika Virus Disease in Colombia — Preliminary Report — NEJM
None. Study ending last month, _no_ cases of microencephaly in over 12,000 pregnant, zika infected, women in Columbia. The statistical likelihood that zika causes any kind of micro encephaly is virtually non-existent.
The statistical relevance is, and always has been, in fact the reverse: that there is a strong likelihood that zika has nothing to do with the microcephaly.
Another article:
Since last November, more than 1,700 confirmed cases of congenital microcephaly or other birth defects of the central nervous system have been reported in Brazil.
Nearly 90 Percent of Brazil Microcephaly Cases Occurred in the Northeast
Amidst growing fear-based propaganda warning of the threat of Zika virus comes a quiet admission from health officials in Brazil: Zika alone may not be responsible for the rise in birth defects that plagued parts of the country.
Source: Brazil Admits It’s Not the Virus
Couldn’t possibly be that the Northeast Brazilian State was adding a Monsanto linked insecticide to its drinking water could it?
Source: https://m.facebook.com/groups/QuietOrganicYards/permalink/1086027174818890/
We don’t need chemical warfare in our yards with needless, cosmetic pesticides. Don’t spend your hard earned money buying and spreading more poisons across the planet!
Too right.
Before my wife passed away from muscular dystrophy, she was diagnosed with several mitochondrial diseases similar to chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) and fibromyalgia.
So I have now just looked up the hand sanitizer ingredient that the FDA has recently banned (triclosan). It is a chlorinated biocide designed to target bacterial fatty acid biosynthesis.
Because of my concern that Roundup (originally described as a bacterial antibiotic) is also damaging mitochondria, I decided to look for information on the effect of triclosan on mitochondria. Remember that our mitochondria and bacteria are incredibly similar evolutionarily.
Quote:
While the study treated fibromyalgia as mitochondrial myopathy, both ME and fibromyalgia have long since been thought of as having significant mitochondrial dysfunction,
Well as it turns out there _is_ evidence that triclosan damages mitochondrial systems. And in several cases avoidance of hand sanitizers has greatly benefited patients diagnosed with fibromyalgia.
Another quote from the article:
Glutathione is the main substance which clears ROS. Glutathione synthesis is highly impaired when mitochondria are dysfunctional:
My PhD work was with reactive oxygen species (ROS) and DNA damage. But I was working with bacteria and at that time didn’t make the correlation with our mitochondria. Oh my!
Yes, we consume a shocking amount of junk food in this country. In fairness, here’s some good news about eating habits: Americans are also adding more whole grains, nuts and seeds to their diets and cutting back on sodas and sugary drinks. So says a study conducted by Tufts Friedman School of Nutrition Science and […]
Source: Chuck Norris kicks back at Roundup use on wheat
OMG if you have celiac disease read this.
Source: Celiac Disease: A Challenge for All Physicians
You all know this is a joke right? You are all smart enough to know that there’s not a chance that 1 in 100 people today have a genetic disease that would have made their genetic ancestors lion food if they so much as looked at wheat, barley, or rye.
Especially since you know that humans evolved in the Fertile Crescent eating cereal grasses (beginning with
1: Emmer [wheat species, gluten]
2: Einkorn [wheat species, gluten]
3: Barley [just gluten]
4: And millet [the only one with no gluten] )
for close to 15 _thousand_ years. I mean you do believe that the human race is older than 600 years right? Or in the case of celiac “disease” the last 20 years right?
I am sure that you know that many paleo diet sites are snake oil salesman advertising ads right?
I mean you do know enough high school genetics to know what polyploidy is. 
And also to know that many, many, plants and _most_ of our food crops are polyploid and the fact that wheat is also polyploidy is pretty irrelevant with respect to gluten.
You all know this right! Okay I feel better. And oh so comfortable that it couldn’t possibly be the class of pesticides we were spraying on wheat.
FRANKLIN — Franklin residents and town employees joined representatives of the Charles River Watershed Association (CRWA) for a tour of five Franklin rain gardens on Aug. 17. The tour was part of an ongoing partnership between CRWA and the Franklin Department of Public Works (DPW) to demonstrate to residents how rain gardens can prevent pollution and help get rainwater into the ground. A rain garden collects and filters polluted runoff from driveways, rooftops and streets. The DPW has
Source: Franklin showcases some of its best rain gardens
My best guess is that this is it Massachusetts although the article does not give much information about locality.
