This is recommended by organic consumers, but I can’t say that I’ve tried it firsthand. Margery Wildcraft is a master gardener, however, and it does come with a 60 day money back guarantee, so I feel comfortable putting it up here.
One of the things that folks had during the Great Depression was the ability to grow their own food. With this un-Depression, folks aren’t as likely to either know how or have the space…to which container gardening or empty city lots come in handy. I think it is a great idea in that you know your food is grown without chemicals. It’s local, which they say is better because it doesn’t cost $$ to transport AND there is some evidence that in geographic areas, the food has unique qualities that are beneficial.
Gov. Scott Walker has rescinded a $500,000 grant to the United Sportsmen of Wisconsin.
You know, for folks who are so dead set against government in their lives, via taxation and regulation, they sure to go out of their way to get those tax dollars while trying to circumvent the democratic process.
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported that the grant was slipped into the budget bill by outgoing Majority Leader Scott Suder with terms that excluded most sporting groups in the state. The grant was not properly advertised, conveniently leaving United Sportsmen as the sole applicant.
You’re telling me that citizens throwing pop cans and shouting obscenities requires the use of armed guards? Talk about overreaction. Yes, it was wrong for the one demonstrator to destroy the camera, no doubt, but having armed guards with assault rifles is just soo over the top.
What I don’t understand is why they are allowed in the forest at all. Why are they destroying what little we have left? People seem to think that climate change is this thingy down the road….hello, it’s happening now and destroying the forests is one of the reasons. Why are they not valued as much as the mining operations? Why aren’t the environmental impacts on the land and water considered as important?
The primary cause of this lasting pollution is acid mine drainage. Mining exposes sulfide-bearing ore that generates sulfuric acid and mixes with water. This outflow of acidic water, otherwise known as acid mine drainage, contaminates drinking water aquifers, lakes, and streams, agricultural lands, and prime fish and wildlife habitat. Because acid mine drainage can’t be stopped, once started it must be treated until the acid generating material runs out. As acknowledged in government mining permits, this can take hundreds or thousands of years.
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Texas’ Freedom of Information Foundation is aiding CMD in obtaining public records that members of ALEC are trying to keep in the dark.
The Fight for Fifteen in Wisconsin. I think $15 per hour is reasonable and would put us back to where we would have been had our wages not stagnated over the last twenty or so years…
There is just something terribly wrong when a CEO can make millions in income while employees are forced on food stamps or food banks to feed themselves and their families.
Finally, in non-Wisconsin news, CMD has this up on the paper trail of Larry Summers. I haven’t begun to read all the information here, so I’m off to read the links. …note, however, the link to education “reform”–he’s on the board of the Eli Broad Foundation. Not only that, but Andy Stern is also on the board–he was head of the Service Employees Union…wow….a union supporter on the board of an organization trying to destroy teacher’s unions and public education. Just wow.
….or in other words, everyday farmers versus Monsanto.
It makes no sense whatsoever that farmers who want nothing to do with Monsanto are being charged with patent infringement when their fields become contaminated. If anything, they should be able to sue Monsanto for trespass.
Russia and China veto a UN resolution backing calls for Assad’s resignation as president of Syria. The veto prompted international outrage, coming hours after the regime’s bloodiest crackdown in the 10-month old conflict, which the UN had already characterized as a civil war. At least 200 people were reported killed in heavy shelling in Homs. Read more
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May 26, 2012
Alleged Houla massacre
Activists say Syrian regime forces have killed more than 90 people in the Houla area, many of them women and children. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says Arab nations and the international community were “partners” in the killing “because of their silence about the massacre that the Syrian regime has committed.” Read more
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June 16, 2012
UN suspends observer mission
International efforts to stop the violence is Syria are disintegrating after the U.N. suspends its observer mission. Major Gen. Robert Mood said rising bloodshed over the past 10 days was posing significant risks to the lives of the 300 unarmed observers in the country, and was impeding their ability to carry out their mandate. Read more
(the UN does go back within a short time period)
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June 25, 2012
Military defections
Dozens of military personnel defect to Turkey overnight. A total of 33 soldiers – including a general and two colonels – slip across the border in the largest defection of members of the military since the uprising began. It comes at a time of heightened tensions between the two countries after Syria shot down a Turkish
warplane.
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July 23, 2012
Chemical weapons threat
The Syrian regime threatens to use its chemical and biological weapons in case of a foreign attack, in its first ever acknowledgement that it possesses weapons of mass destruction. Read more
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May 3, 2013
Israeli air strikes
Israel launches air strikes into Syria over 48 hours. One appears to target a military complex. An Israeli official says they were targeting missile shipments bound for Hezbollah. Read more
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Well…this is disturbing. Jim White writes that the Kerry tried to interfere with the UN gathering evidence for an independent report on whether chemical weapons are being used. And if you follow the NYTimes link, it states that if Sarin was used, the chemical would linger for a long time, and therefore it could be detected long after it was used. Kind of like DDT, eh?
IF there were chemical weapons used…I wonder who sold either the chemicals or the technology to them? Gah, it wouldn’t be Monsanto, now would it? /snark
In the CNN piece, she mentions lesions in their respiratory systems…and my mind went to petroleum products as a cause. Notice that the reporter briefly mentions pollution as a problem, and immediately goes to bacteria and elaborates on that without discussing what pollution does to marine animals.
So….I searched and found this on the effects of the BP oil spill on the dolphins. (Apparently, BP didn’t get rid of ALL the evidence. /said with dripping sarcasm.)
Wow, look at this. The picture is showing globs of oil still sticking to a grad student after he had showered.
And remember “corexit”–the controversial *cough* clean up chemical (because it makes perfect sense to use chemicals to clean up petroleum chemicals…natch. /said with even more dripping sarcasm…)
Well…corexit is apparently still in the water, along with the globs of oil:
Tiny globs of it, mingled with the chemical dispersant that was supposed to break it up, have settled into the shallows, mingling with the shells, he said
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Geologist James Kirby states that he wouldn’t want his grandchildren playing in the surf, and says this:
“The dispersant accelerates the absorption by the skin.”
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The dispersant accelerates absorption by the skin...meaning it’s making the oil even more toxic. Even worse is that corexit is interfering with bacteria that normally eat the oil after spills. Holy crap.
As always, it is wise to know who is funding research, and am glad to hear that Kirby’s funding is from a group independent of BP.
Also on my mind for a cause is mercury–which could be combining with the toxic petroleum and corexit–
I found this paper that I haven’t seen before on the connection between mercury and dolphins beaching themselves. This is important because it compares the dolphins that beached themselves with the same group. They were also going to test mercury levels in fossil teeth…gotta love the Aussies.
I thought this paragraph was interesting:
Historical gold mining, which up until the 1930s used mercury in gold extraction, is the likely main source of the heavy metal in the waters, says Thompson. The mercury has gradually washed down the Yarra and other rivers, and accumulated in the sediments of the bay. Current dredging work could further increase mercury levels in the food chain, he adds. The mercury levels he measured were already higher than those found in dolphins in other populations in polluted waters around the world, from the Mediterranean to costal India.
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This is not something I have come across before–mercury being used in gold extraction. Wonder how that has affected gold miners and water supplies in the U.S.?
Finally, I’ll leave you with this–Note the video clip of the trail of oil spilled that also follows the east coastline where the dolphins are beaching themselves:
Here is an excellent piece on solving the mercury mystery….it’s not really that hard if one looks for it. But that would require work and persistence…
This passage really struck home to me:
He was only 44 years old. The cause of death, according to the ASA account, was lupus erythermatosis, an autoimmune disease in which the body attacks its own healthy tissue. According to his death certificate, as mentioned above, his brother, Ritchey, died of multiple myeloma — a cancer of the immune system, formed by malignant plasma cells in the bone marrow.
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Mercury/heavy metals cause autoimmune diseases. They also cause cancer. I mean, they actually use nickel in labs to give rats cancer! These are well known, but rarely looked at by the medical profession…why??
Too much profit in providing medical care?? Too much profit for Big Pharma??
If you think not, just remember the story by Gary Null about the hospital in Washington state that first entertained the idea of liquid zinc helping women suffering from anorexia/bulimia…when the doc who discovered the connection was asked to speak before the hospital staff, the bean counters pulled the administrators aside and remarked that if a simple thing like liquid zinc could bring results in a week or so, what would happen to their $$$ profits on the eating disorders clinic…?? Yep.
As Shirley Chisholm said, “When profits come up against morality, it’s rare that profits lose.”
First Nations protestors were banned from interfering with oil exploration on a land reserve. They consider it sacred ground and they were not consulted by leadership before the leaders gave their approval. It’s stunning that the tribe brought charges before the court against their own.
What I would like to know is….if it is a land reserve, what the hell are oil companies doing there in the first place…? It’s a land reserve!
Just keep tearing up the Earth and polluting it until there is nothing left….small minds.
Eagle 
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