Thursday, June 05, 2014

5 June - The View

Antonio the Cava is a retired teacher. After 42 years of teaching he decided that he could do more by spreading the love of reading to children who were unable to get to a library. Thus, in 2003, he bought a second-hand motorbike and modified it to create a portable library that contains 700 books and has been traveling since then.
Each week he drives to the villages in the region of Basilicata in southern Italy. The sound of an organ announces his arrival. When they hear the song, excited children run to the mobile library for their next book. Antonio travels over 300 miles a month without any compensation, just to make children smile and invest in their futures. What an incredible inspiration he is. Thank you Antonio for all that you do!
via The Farmacy

Did Scientists Just Solve the Bee Collapse Mystery?

neonic-treated bees suddenly abandoned hives that had been healthy all summer, while untreated bees hung around and repopulated their hives.
 Lu stressed that the treated bees showed no ill effects during the 13 weeks of the feeding—it was only well after exposure to the pesticides, during the winter, that they fled their hives.
Bayer also took issue with the length of the exposure, arguing that it went on too long. "Given the artificially high levels tested over 13 consecutive weeks, the colony failure rates observed are completely expected*," the company claimed in its statement. Lu countered that in New England, where he performed the experiment, bees can forage outside from March to September—30 weeks. In other parts of the country, he added, bees can forage for as long as 41 weeks.

Shoot yourself in the foot, Bayer ?* 





 Operation Maple shared a link
 
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Cons convicted of election fraud in 2006, with over $200k paid in fines,...
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17 mins · 
You'll never see this on 'Cops'
She is tasered multiple times, thrown to the ground and has her face knelt on by 200 pounds of cop.
STORY/VIDEO: http://bit.ly/1ot14Hb
 

 


Someone said it.
www.FarrahGray.com
 





This electric car goes more than 1,600 km* without recharging

Alcoa/Phinergy car
An electric car may soon be able to cruise the highway all day without stopping or recharging — new technology demonstrated in Montreal this week can extend the range of an electric car by 1,600 kilometres, its inventors say.
* 1000 miles


We can call it a conspiracy if we want (and be open to all ideas), but the truth is that there is a huge financial incentive for chemical companies to dump this stuff in our water, much like how Monsanto has incentive to use GMOs to sell more of its proprietary chemicals.
Follow the money, always...And spend yours wisely.
From the page AltHealthWORKS

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TransCanada Corp. says it plans to build a $1.9-billion pipeline to help feed Chevron Corp. and Apache Corp.'s proposed liquefied natural gas facility near Kitimat, B.C.

CTV News

Harper Risks Political Damage Allowing Gateway Pipeline
Bloomberg
Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper risks a political backlash in British Columbia ahead of next year's election if his government approves Enbridge Inc. (ENB)'s Northern Gateway pipeline, a Bloomberg-Nanos poll shows. Forty-seven percent of ...
British Columbians want Northern Gateway delayed or killed: pollMontreal Gazette
Canada Has Its Own Gas Pipeline Problem: The Northern GatewayMotherboard
Scientists rap Enbridge pipeline reviewAbbotsford News

Manhunt in Moncton, NB, after RCMP officers shot dead
Toronto Sun
Related Stories. 3 RCMP officers shot dead, 2 wounded in Moncton, N.B.




Canada Unveils New Prostitution Law
NDTV
Ottawa: Canada's attorney general has unveiled a law that makes it legal to sell sex to individuals but illegal to buy it, after the high court struck down an anti-prostitution law.

Men's Health: Sexually transmitted infection linked to prostate cancer
Calgary Herald
A protein secreted by the Trichomonas vaginalis parasite may play a role in prostate cancer, new research suggests.


California has largely escaped two decades of controversy surrounding the resurgence of wolves in the West, but the state stepped firmly into the fray Wednesday as wildlife officials voted to extend endangered species protections to gray wolves.
China continued to reject corn cargoes from the U.S. that contained an unapproved genetically modified variety and instead accepted the first bulk-carrier shipment of non-GMO corn from Ukraine




Economic Times

Oil prices dip on hopes of Ukraine crisis easing
Economic Times
SINGAPORE: Oil prices dipped in Asia Thursday after Russian President Vladimir Putin reached out a hand to crisis-hit Ukraine, raising hopes of an easing in the worst East-West standoff since the Cold War.
Nigeria Kidnapped Girls
Boko Haram militants are taking over villages in northeastern Nigeria, and killing and terrorizing civilians and political leaders in the process, witnesses say.



Willie Mims, a 93-year-old voter, no longer drives and has no need for other forms of ID.
This morning, he was turned away from his Alabama voting precinct, prohibited from casting a ballot because of the state's new voter-ID law.
Willie Mims, 93, no longer drives. This morning, he was turned away from his local precinct, prohibited from casting a ballot.
MSNBC



Toronto Star

Withdrawal rules put retired Canadians at risk of outliving savings, report says
The Globe and Mail
Retired Canadians trying to balance their need for current income against the risk of outliving their savings face serious erosion in the purchasing power of tax-deferred savings, says a new report. Rules set down 22 years ago that require mandatory minimum ...
Canada's RRIF withdrawal rules forces seniors to outlive their savings, CD Howe




Just a few months ago, John McCain was "inclined to support" a prisoner swap with the Taliban to secure Bowe Bergdahl's release.
So why did McCain start saying the opposite after Obama announced the agreement that's bringing Bergdahl home?
McCain has not explained why he was "inclined to support" the same deal the administration actually struck, which the senator is no longer inclined to support.
MSNBC

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Uni Lad 

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Over fifty years ago, the architects of African independence – Nkrumah, Nyerere, Lumumba, and others, met in Accra, Tunis, and Cairo to discuss the way forward for the continent. Now, more than five decades on, this is our “All-African Peoples Conference”. This is the forum on which we meet to launch our collective vision for Africa, and where open and honest discussion can take place.
We encourage you to take another look at the continent and reconsider the paradigms through which you view and study Africa.

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Extremists are Evolving – So Should We

Counterterrorism is not working. Retaliatory military actions, condemnation by world leaders and by the general public on social media and censorship of terrorist organizations have all proven futile. It’s time to try something new. It’s been almost two months since over 230 high school girls were abducted from Chibok, Nigeria; Nigerians – along with the global […]




Just in — Fletch outed as anonymous reviewer in Environmental Research Letters



May 16, 2014
Steve McIntyre highlighted a response from the Institute of Physics (Publishers of Environmental Research Letters) to a UK Times article reporting the suppression of a global warming paper submitted by Dr. Bengtsson.  A paper which again attempted to document the less than supportive evidence observed temperatures provide for climate models.  The paper was written by a well known climate scientist who chose the unfortunate path of publishing TRUTH rather than Real Climate dogma necessary for success in today’s Climate Science™ field.
The article caught my attention because the reasons given for rejection are wholly unscientific and truly indefensible yet they are expressed as boldly as can be. 


One cannot and should not simply interpret the IPCCs ranges for AR4 or 5 as confidence intervals or pdfs and hence they are not directly comparable to observation based intervals (as e.g. in Otto et al).
In the same way that one cannot expect a nice fit between observational studies and the CMIP5 models
So models and observations are not to be compared.   
We will stay tuned in the coming days for the continuing saga as yet another climate scientist experiences public flogging for noting that modeled temperature trends are not consistent and way over observations.


EPA Admits Climate Rule Will Raise Electricity Prices

Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2014/06/02/epa-admits-climate-rule-will-raise-electricity-prices/#ixzz33iMBf9eL





Northern Gateway Pipeline report 'flawed', 300 scientists tell PM
Open letter from 300 scientists to PM Harper says report is so flawed, it is essentially useless
Hundreds of scientists have signed a letter to Prime Minister Stephen Harper saying the recent report on the Northern Gateway Pipeline is so flawed, it's essentially useless.
The scientists say the Joint Review Panel report has so many systemic errors and omissions it can't be used to make decisions on whether the pipeline is beneficial to the public.
The 300 scientists from across Canada and around the world say the JRP's recommendation to approve the proposed pipeline from the oil sands in Alberta to the North Coast of B.C. was based on a "flawed analysis of the risks and benefits to B.C.'s environment and society."
"We urge you in the strongest possible terms to reject this report," says the letter.
The report approval, which was released in December, included 209 required conditions, including developing a marine mammal protection plan, researching heavy oil cleanup and conducting emergency response exercises.
The Harper government is expected to decide whether to approve the Enbridge Northern Gateway Pipeline sometime this month.
UBC associate professor Kai Chan, who helped pen the letter, calls the report a failure.
"The consideration of how the benefits outweigh the costs and risks was really given almost no space and no logic. It's absolutely insufficient as a basis to make a decision as to whether the project is in the public interest," says Chan.
Among the concerns raised in the letter, the group says the report:
"Failed to consider important impacts, such as the increased greenhouse gas emissions that could result from oils sands development and burning Northern Gateway oil products in Asia.
"Reached conclusions contradicting the government’s own scientific evidence, including risks to large whales and other marine species.
"Unjustifiably dismissed the uncertain risks posed by diluted bitumen spills at sea as unimportant risks.
"Relied on an oil spill response plan that is not yet developed
"Relied on information from the proponent without external evaluation.
Failed "to provide an explanation of how it had reached its conclusions, especially the central one, that the project’s benefits justify its risks and costs."
"Given such flaws, the JRP report is indefensible as a basis to judge in favour of the project," the letter concludes.



A anti flea / tick medication known as Sergeant Bansect is causing seizures in animals so extreme the only option the vets have is to put the affected pets down.... the cat shakes uncontrollably for the entire video. Heart wrenching.
Please take sergeant bansect off the market!
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Do you know ocean WATER is clean energy liquid natural gasses; hydrogen and oxygen? Did you know that’s what rocket fuel comes from and it can power autos, boats and a variet
y of things? It seems crazy to ship tankers of polluting petroleum across oceans of clean energy liquid natural gases and think its useless water, when the boats could be powered by hydrogen they make themselves from the unlimited water supply in the ocean instead of limited tanks of oil. Instead of pipelines carry polluting petrol products to the sea, ocean water can be piped inland for clean energy, drinking and irrigation. Instead of arguing about which green tech is better, integrating a number of different clean energy technologies will enable many machines and buildings to power themselves and still create many similar jobs.



I would like your help to tell the world how to power everything with clean-e
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Fuel from "thin air". The original article was from 2012. The developers only needed a larger plant. With a target of 2015, time is approaching that this technology will be commercially viable.
Scientists successfully generate gasoline out of thin air
Breakthrough technology takes carbon, hydrogen and oxygen from CO2 and water in the air to create methanol and then converts it into gasoline.
 

AFS expect to have the plant fully operational and servicing clients from the early part of 2015. Discussions are now underway with potential clients and sales partners to develop the retail channels for AFS products.
The Company: http://www.airfuelsynthesis.com/
 

In a disturbing discovery revealed this week, nearly 800 children were found in a mass grave near a former home for unwed mothers and their children. The children are believed to have been buried in a septic tank on...
THE HUFFINGTON POST|BY SARA GATES

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