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• A Strange System: Food: Hard Travelin’ Blues

  
  Science & Soul — Authority: 106
  You walk through the aisles of your local supermarket.  Apples in June.  Watermelons in February.  Oranges in December.  Weird star fruit in….well I don’t actually know if star fruit have a picking season.  So how do we have these fruits and vegetables when it is not time for them to be picked. Most of our ...
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• Pesticide-Soaked Wallpaper Cuts Malaria Exposure, Safer Than Spraying

  
  TreeHugger — Authority: 721
  Mosquito on the wall. Image credit: DesertUSA. To lower mosquito exposure in malaria-prone places there are two basic pesticide use strategies. The half-century old approach - a remnant of 1950s era thinking - is to spray entire towns, as well as the surrounding countryside, with a pesticide such as DDT or ...
  3 days ago

• Some reading recommendations!

  
  Fabius Maximus — Authority: 557
  These are all articles about which I wanted to write, but will never find the time.  I recommend them for your reading pleasure.“DDT, Eggshells, and Me“, Ronald Bailey, Reason Magazine, 7 January 2004 — “Cracking open the facts on birds and banned pesticides.”  A balanced look at a chemical widely ...
  5 days ago

• A Strange System: Food: Blue Baby Blues

  
  Science & Soul — Authority: 106
  Time to get back on the horse after a week of midterms. Nitrogen was the primary limiting nutrient in terrestrial ecosystems.  Nitrogen levels could be increased by using composted organic material, but that took a long period of time and was hard work.  Keep that in mind.  World War II is raging and ammonia is ...
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• #Inconvenient Truths about he Liberal Environmentalists Agenda and Harm already done to millions of human beings.

  
  And So I Go: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow — Authority: 441
  Inconvenient Truths I used to be a rather radical environmentalist, and in many ways I still am, but I finally came to the conclusion that like anything else environmental issues must be weight with other factors   and a course taken to do the least harm and/or the most good.   I found however that I was ...
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• The Real Impacts of Media Bias

  
  Western Journalism.com — Authority: 142
  Ann McElhinney was not always a conservative; in fact, she was once quite liberal. McElhinney was a journalist called to cover a story about a Canadian mining company in Romania. “What was really bizarre about this,” McElhinney said, “was that the BBC, CNN, the New York Times covered this story of this evil ...
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• Northern Uganda: Dispute and warnings over DDT-spraying

  
  Uganda Watch — Authority: 484
  Email received today, addressed to  Uganda Watch : DDT: Government puts the people in Northern Uganda on dangerous health risks Dear Sirs, Im a science journalist of ugandan origin based in Cologne, Germany. I have a PhD in Genetics and worked for six years at the University Hospital in Cologne. Please inform ...
  2 weeks ago

• Quote of the moment: DDT causing bed bug problems, Malcolm Gladwell

  
  Millard Fillmore's Bathtub — Authority: 498
  Then the Malaysians started to complain about bedbugs, and it turns out what normally happens is that ants like to eat bedbug larvae,” McWilson Warren said. “But the ants were being killed by the DDT and the bedbugs weren’t–they were pretty resistant to it. So now you had a bedbug problem.” - Malcolm ...
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• “Not Evil, Just Wrong” opens to thunderous silence

  
  Millard Fillmore's Bathtub — Authority: 498
  It’s the air conditioning one hears, not applause. Did your local newspaper review the movie?  Odds are the movie didn’t play in your town (did it play anywhere other than local Republican clubs?). “Not Evil, Just Wrong” promoters and producers appear to have abandoned hopes for a wide-scale debut of their ...
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• Inconvenient Truths Surface in ‘Not Evil Just Wrong’

  
  Big Hollywood — Authority: 813
  “It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.” Former vice president Al Gore uses this Upton Sinclair quote in his 2006 Oscar-winning documentary, “ An Inconvenient Truth ,” when describing politicians and businessmen who oppose his belief that the ...
  3 weeks ago

• When Environmental Activism Does More Harm Than Good

  
  The Foundry — Authority: 758
  Last night Heritage hosted the world premiere of “ Not Evil Just Wrong ,” a feature-length documentary that reveals the true cost of global warming hysteria and the unintended consequences of radical environmental policies that have been going on for decades. The film was broadcast live on Ustream.tv and ...
  3 weeks ago

• Prime Minister Key’s Capital home sits on toxic land

  
  NewsWire.co.nz — Authority: 131
  PREMIER HOUSE: Sits on former petrol station. PREMIER House – the official residence of Prime Minister John Key – is on the official register of  contaminated Wellington properties. The register – published by the Dominion Post after the Ombudsman ruled it was in the interests of public safety – ...
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• Worldwide Premiere of “Not Evil just Wrong, The true cost of Global Warming HYSTERIA

  
  The Smoking Argus Daily — Authority: 119
  Synopsis:Global warming alarmists want Americans to believe that humans are killing the planet. But Not Evil Just Wrong, a new documentary by Phelim McAleer and Ann McElhinney, proves that the only threats to America (and the rest of the world) are the fl awed science and sky-is-falling rhetoric of Al Gore and his ...
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• Monckton lies again (and again and again and again . . .)! The continuing saga of a practicer of fiction

  
  Millard Fillmore's Bathtub — Authority: 498
  When Monckton claimed that Jackie Kennedy was responsible for malaria in Africa, I thought it a great stretch. Holy cow!  Monckton gave a speech in Minnesota, and if this quote is representative , it was a one man re-enactment of the Burlington Liar’s Club quarterfinals for 2002 through 2008 (he was ...
  3 weeks ago

• CENTRAL PARK AND PESTICIDE SPRAYING

  
  GRECO ROMAN WELLNESS — Authority: 123
  Ray Salomone, Personal Trainer and Wellness Activist   Update on my efforts to have the Central Park Conservancy discontinue the application of pesticides in and around Central Park . I requested via voice to Neil Calvanese, VP of Operations, that I be made aware of the ...
  3 weeks ago

• Anti-Gore film’s producer tries tantrum to get publicity

  
  Millard Fillmore's Bathtub — Authority: 498
  Phelim McAleer, one of the producers of the anti-Al Gore film “Not Evil, Just Wrong,” sneaked into a Gore press event and threw a tantrum the other day . Why is this relevant?  Oh, the tantrum was rude, but if you’re a hack film producer with a political screed whose film looks like a flop, you’ll do ...
  4 weeks ago

• Do You Remember... The Mosquito Truck

  
  Midlife Crisis| Midlife Crisis blog, honoluluadvertiser.com | Honolulu, Hawaii — Authority: 118
  Photo courtesy of Ocean Lover MLC poster Ocean Lover sent me this picture that brought back some old memories of small kid time. Do you recognize it?  We referred to it as "the mosquito truck". Growing up in Coconut Grove in Kailua - 2 houses away from the Kawainui marsh - we had a mosquito problem.  Flies were ...
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• Rock and roll doesn’t respect borders

  
  Scholars and Rogues — Authority: 587
  One day my Austrian roommate came home and told me that one of the biggest bands in Russian rock history would be playing a show in Piter. How could i say no? So i went to the Cultural Palace with a group of Austrian students, a nation not known for its dedication to rock. The lobby was filled with Russians of every ...
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• The war against Rachel Carson still rages

  
  Millard Fillmore's Bathtub — Authority: 498
  Tim Lambert and Deltoid takes apart the hapless and pointless attack on Rachel Carson by J. F. Beck, in some publication named Quadrant . Beaten so badly in the realm of law making, regulatory hearings, in the courts, and in the science journals, critics of a clean environment are reduced to attacking a woman who ...
  4 weeks ago

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