IARC, the France-based cancer research arm of the World Health Organization, has issued a report finding that Roundup is a probable carcinogen. Though, Monsanto continues to defend the chemical. “We question the quality of the assessment,” Philip Miller, Monsanto vice president of global regulatory affairs, said. “The WHO has something to explain.” Glyphosate is the […]
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The Problem with Roundup Weed Killer
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China And Climate Change
In a unique statement, the ranking weather official for China has come out publicly about global warming. The BBC reports: Climate change could have a “huge impact” on China, reducing crop yields and harming the environment, the country’s top weather scientist has warned, in a rare official admission. Zheng Guogang told Xinhua news agency that […]
Posted in Environment, Global Warming, International, weather
Tagged China, climate change, droughts, extreme weather events, floods, food security, global warming
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Human
Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are and what they ought to be. — William Hazlitt
Success
If A equals success, then the formula is A = X + Y + Z. X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut. — Albert Einstein
California Running Dry
CALIFORNIA — Jay Famiglietti, a senior water scientist at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California said, “As our ‘wet’ season draws to a close, it is clear that the paltry rain and snowfall have done almost nothing to alleviate epic drought conditions. January was the driest in California since record-keeping began in 1895. Groundwater […]
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Tagged climate change, drought, extreme weather events, global warming, water
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Bombing Of Tokyo
On March 10, 1945, the United States sent 334 B-29 bombers to raid Japan with 279 of the planes dropping 1,665 tons of bombs on Tokyo. Approximately 15.8 square miles of the city was destroyed and some 100,000 people are estimated to have died. Operation Meetinghouse — “The bombs were mostly the 500-pound E-46 cluster […]
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Tagged bombing, children, civilians, Operation Meetinghouse, U.S.
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What if God is a Girl?
Father John Micheal O’neal, a seventy-one year old Catholic priest from Massachusetts, was declared dead for approximately forty-eight minutes. Doctors were able to re-start his heart. Father O’neal claims to have had a “near death” experience in which he met God. He believes God is a “feminine, mother-like Being of Light”. The Father said, “I […]
Copyrights And Patents
by Daniel Brouse Though copyrights and patents are generally thought to protect the creator from the public, sometimes they may be thought to protect the public from the creator. A copyright offers protection to literary and musical works. In the United States a copyright’s duration is usually for the life of the author plus 70 […]
Posted in freedom, Government, Law, Media, Philosophy, Politics, War And Peace
Tagged Adolf Hitler, copyrights, dangerous book, expires, farmers, Mein Kampf, Monsanto, Nazi, patent, Roundup Ready, soybeans
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Graupel
Recently, parts of Pennsylvania witnessed graupel. Graupel is not snow, nor is it hail. Wikipedia defines graupel as: Graupel (German pronunciation: [ˈɡʁaʊpɛl]; English /ˈɡraʊpəl/, also called soft hail or snow pellets) is precipitation that forms when supercooled droplets of water are collected and freeze on a falling snowflake, forming a 2–5 mm (0.079–0.197 in) ball […]