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Re: Blasts from the 2012 to 2013 past when there was more HOPE
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Date: July 7, 2018, 3:35 pm
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> [center]How To Create A Low Maintenance Green Roof
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Re: Blasts from the 2012 to 2013 past when there was more HOPE
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Date: July 7, 2018, 3:37 pm
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>
> I have found some great articles covering various subjects of
interest to readers and dealing with our present problems in
society and the environment by Robert Riversong. I will be
presenting them here for your reading pleasure.
> [quote][size=14pt]Civil War: The Conquest of Agrarianism by
Industrialism
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> “Nations are not communities and never have been. The history
of any country, presented as the history of a family, conceals
the fierce conflicts of interest (sometimes exploding, often
repressed) between conquerors and conquered, masters and slaves,
capitalists and workers, dominators and dominated in race and
sex. And in such a world of conflict, a world of victims and
executioners, it is the job of thinking people, as Albert Camus
suggested, not to be on the side of the executioners.”
>
> - Howard Zinn, A People’s History of the United States
>
> Because much of the myth of American exceptionalism that is
the dogma of global empire and the core of our cultural paradigm
has its roots in the clash of civilizations that we call the
Civil War, I’ve excerpted the following from a most important
book on America’s cultural dysfunction – one of the very few
honest and accurate analyses of the nature of that internecine
conflict (and of the American personality).
>
> The Subjugation of the South by the North
>
> From Why America Failed: The Roots of Imperial Decline
>
> Morris Berman, 2012
>
> Nearly everything in modern American history turns on the
Civil War, because the nascent ideology of America (which can
more accurately be described as a mythology, or grand narrative)
requires us to “fix” traditional societies and eliminate
obstacles to progress. With the Civil War, these two goals
converged. What the North did to the South is the model of what
America did and does to “backward” (i.e. traditional) societies
if it can. We wiped out almost the entire indigenous population
of North America, we stole half of Mexico, we literally
vaporized a large chunk of the Japanese population, we bombed
Vietnam “back to the Stone Age” (in the immortal words of Gen.
Curtis LeMay, Air Force Chief of Staff), we “shocked and awed”
Iraqi civilians, and spent ten years trying to “pacify” and
“nation-build” Afghanistan.
>
> The Civil War was, in fact, a clash of civilizations and what
was at stake was nothing less than the definition of what
constitutes a meaningful life. It was this great conflict which
generated the energy that sustained a four-year battle and the
death of 625,000 individuals.
>
> The popular, school-book version of the antebellum South was
one of a backward and immoral place – a national embarrassment –
which refused to abandon the abomination of slavery, which led
to the Civil War to rectify this injustice. Under the leadership
of the saintly Abraham Lincoln, the virtuous Union armies
defeated the evil Confederate ones, and the slaves were set
free. This remains the political correct and liberal academic
version to this day.
>
> Slavery was a barbaric system, which the South attempted to
defend to the bitter end, but this explanation ignores the
complexities that contributed to the war, as well as the fact
that the South had a rich intellectual tradition and a virtue of
its own. There is, in truth, so much complexity to the
relationship between North and South that few historians agree
on whether slavery was the primary motive for the War or a
smokescreen for concealing other motives, on the nature of
Southern society, on the nature of slavery and the motivations
and character of the anti-slavery movement, and on the
interpretation of the sectional clashes which preceded the final
crisis.
>
> Among the complexifying elements that contributed to the
crisis were economic motives, the desire to preserve the Union
at all costs, and the fight over states rights versus
federalism, in addition to the nature of the new territories of
the westward expansion.
>
> Though the denial of the slavery issue as the prime factor is
sometimes a form of Southern apologetics, it is never-the-less
true that prior to the Emancipation Proclamation of January 1,
1863, the North had proposed no change in the status of the
Negro as a result of the war. This gives credence to the claims
of Jefferson Davis (among others) that the real goal of the
North was not abolition but domination of the South. Charles
Beard, in The Rise of American Civilization (1927), saw the war
as a struggle between two conflicting economies, the watershed
division between the agricultural era and the industrial era in
American history. For him, slavery was more of a footnote to the
war, as the most obvious result of the war was the ascendancy of
Northern capitalism and the emergence of a plutocracy in the
United States.
>
> But even this interpretation over-simplifies, as slavery was
central to the economic differences between the two American
cultures. Without the slavery issue, there would have been no
Republican Party, formed as it was by anti-slavery activists,
modernizers, ex-Whigs and ex-Free Soilers (who opposed the
expansion of slavery into the western territories, arguing that
free men on free soil comprised a morally and economically
superior system to slavery).
>
> Most Northerners believed, at least initially, that the war
was not about slavery as a moral issue. In an address to a
special session of Congress on July 4, 1861, Lincoln stated, “I
have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with
slavery in the United States where it exists”, repeating what he
had said at his inauguration earlier in the year. Secession, he
said, was the real issue, for the Union must be preserved at all
costs (the Union Congress passed resolutions endorsing all of
this). Lincoln already made it clear that he did not favor
social and political equality for blacks “in any way” and was a
major proponent of repatriating them to a colony in Central
America. For other Republicans, moral opposition to slavery was
a non-issue.
>
> Union soldiers saw themselves as fighting for the Union and
against what they regarded as treason. Only a minority had an
interest in fighting for black freedom. A popular Northern
war-time ditty went:
>
> A willingness to fight with vigor,
for
loyal rights, but not for the nigger.
>
> In the case of “contrabands” – slaves who escaped from their
masters during the war and sought refuge in Union army camps –
the typical Yankee response was indifference or cruelty, often
using them as defacto slaves, with the women occasionally raped.
>
> Although Lincoln personally believed that slavery was morally
wrong, his primary motivations were social and economic. His
vision was of a nation of unlimited economic opportunity and
upward social mobility – “free labor”, or what would later be
known as the American Dream. He had no special prejudices
against the South; his goal was to halt further expansion of
slavery into the Western territories (what we now call the
Midwest) so that the white people could build a better life for
themselves through their own efforts. Abolitionists like Horace
Greeley, editor of The New York Tribune, rebuked Lincoln in 1862
for not taking a stronger stand against slavery. Lincoln’s reply
ought to clear up any doubts as to where he stood on the matter,
at least at that point in time:
>
> “My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union,
and it is not to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the
Union without freeing any slave I would do it; and if I could
save it by freeing all the slaves I would do it; and if I could
save it by freeing some and leaving others alone I would also do
that. What I do about slavery, and the colored race, I do
because I believe it helps to save the Union; and what I
forbear, I forbear because I do not believe it would help to
save the Union.”
>
> All the evidence suggests that the North’s “nobility” in
fighting slavery was a long-afer-the-fact justification, an
attempt to portray the conflict as a victory of morality over
depravity. It’s a thesis that gets people exercised, but it
doesn’t wash with the facts.
>
> If not slavery as a moral issue, what then of the economic
factors? The conflict between an agrarian slave economy and an
industrial capitalist one is also enmeshed in the sectional
conflict over the future character of the Western territories
and the nature of modernity. Historians James McPherson and Eric
Foner see the conflict as a clash of worldviews. Foner concludes
with the
>
> “conviction that North and South represented two social
systems whose values, interests, and future prospects were in
sharp, perhaps mortal, conflict with one another. The sense of
difference, of estrangement, and of growing hostility with which
Republicans viewed the South cannot be overemphasized…An attack
not simply on the institution of slavery but upon southern
society itself was thus at the heart of the Republican
mentality.”
>
> Each ideology, the Northern and Southern, contained “the
conviction that its own social system must expand, not only to
insure its own survival but to prevent the expansion of all the
evils the other represented”. The conflict had become Manichean;
only the aspirations of one of these sides could prevail. To
have remained in the Union after Lincoln’s election, says Foner,
“the South would have had to accept the verdict of ‘ultimate
extinction’ which Lincoln and the Republicans had passed on the
peculiar institution [slavery].” Secession, he adds, was “the
only action consistent with its ideology”. As the Italian
historian Raimondo Luraghi puts it, “no society can ever be
expected to commit suicide”.
>
> The Southern economy was agrarian, the Northern one
industrial. After the 1830s, cotton ceased to dominate the
economy of the North, which had then become a manufacturing
region. North and West came to depend less on the South and more
on each other. While Northern business interests were hardly
advocates of war for the sake of the Union, their expanding
interests never-the-less could result in nothing less.
“Nowhere”, writes Luraghi, “has the industrial revolution…ever
been achieved except by compelling agriculture to pay for it”.
>
> Between 1800 and 1860, the proportion of the labor force
engaged in agriculture in the North dropped from 70% to 40%; in
the South, the proportion held fast at 80%. One tenth of
Southerners lived in urban areas; 25% of Northerners did. For
those engaged in business, the North to South ratio was three to
one; for engineers and inventors, six to one. In 1850, only 14%
of the national canal mileage ran through the slave states.
Those states represented 42% of the country’s population but
only 18% of its manufacturing capacity. The city of Lowell,
Massachusetts operated more spindles in 1860 than all eleven of
the future Confederate states combined.
>
> Lincoln’s economic views were central to his political
philosophy. Lincoln first came to prominence in rural Illinois
as an advocate of better transportation. As a Whig member of the
Illinois House of Representatives, he supported the creation of
numerous private companies engaged in river, canal, turnpike and
railroad construction, as well as the establishment of a state
bank in 1835. His vision, according to Gabor Borritt (Lincoln
and the Economics of the American Dream), was that of endless
material progress. The extension of slavery thus had to be
opposed, in Lincoln’s eyes, because it flew in the face of this
economic objective. Lincoln believed the Union “formed an
indivisible economic unit”. In socio-economic terms, Lincoln
regarded “unobstructed upward mobility [as] the most important
ideal America strove for”.
>
> The Republican Party was united, according to Foner (Free
Soil, Free Labor, Free Men), by the idea that free
(entrepreneurial) labor was socially and economically superior
to slave labor and that “the distinctive quality of Northern
society was the opportunity it offered wage earners to rise to
property-owning independence”. Their political pitch throughout
the 1850s was that freedom meant prosperity, progress, and
upward social mobility, while slavery was an obstacle to all
those things. The Republicans held that today’s laborers would
be tomorrow’s capitalists, and that if a man failed to rise
above his status he had only himself to blame (the legacy of
this, as John Steinbeck pointed out many years later, was that
in America the poor regard themselves as “temporarily
embarrassed millionaires”). Lincoln was the perfect
representative of this group, because his life embodied the
ideology of the self-made man – an ideology that would be
carried into the next century by means of Horatio Alger stories.
>
> In the antebellum period (let alone much later), the
idealization of the self-made man was largely a myth. During
that period, 4% of the inhabitants of New York City controlled
50% of the wealth, and only a tiny percentage of the wealthy
were self-made; the vast majority being born into wealthy
families. As for “free labor” – autonomous or entrepreneurial
labor – the reality is that it included wage labor (factory or
other types of employment). In 1859, almost 60% of the workforce
was employed by another, not economically independent
(self-employed). By the late nineteenth century, Lincoln’s
argument that wage labor was a temporary state on the road to
free labor could not be maintained, and labor unions argued that
coercion was as inherent to industrial capitalism as it had been
to slavery.
>
> “Wage slavery” was a popular phrase in the Gilded Age (during
the 1870s and 1880s, the U.S. economy rose at the fastest rate
in its history) – a concept that Southerners were bandying about
decades earlier. Southerners saw the Linconesque vision of a
“race for life” grotesque. They looked North and saw a society
of frenetic activity, selfishness and greed and wanted no part
of it. Frederick Law Olmsted, traveling through the South at
that time, commented that the Southerner “enjoys life
itself…[and] is content with being”, whereas the Northerner
couldn’t be happy unless he was doing something, making some
sort of “progress”. Looking the other way, the Cincinnati
Gazette, in 1858, saw a society lazy, decadent and absent of
industry.
>
> The treatment of the South by the North was the template for
the way the United States would come to treat any nation that
got in the way of progress: not merely a scorched earth policy,
but a scorched soul policy (the destruction of Native American
culture was, of course, a preview of this). From Japan to Iraq
and Afghanistan, to the extent that we have been able to impose
it, we first destroy the place physically and murder huge
numbers of civilians (as the North did to the South with 50,000
civilian deaths) and then we Americanize it. Humiliation, the
destruction of the identity of the defeated people, has always
been an important part of the equation. What the Cincinnati
Gazette called introducing “the Northern system of life” later
became the American way of life, exported at the muzzle of a
gun.
>
> Lincoln told an official of the Interior Department in 1862
that, as of 1863, “the character of the war will be changed. It
will be one of subjugation…The South is to be destroyed and
replaced by new propositions and new ideas”. There was an
incessant repetition of the theme of how it was necessary to
“Northernize the South”. Thaddeus Stevens, leader of the radical
faction of the Republicans in the House of Representaives,
believed this would have to “involve the desolation of the
South”, and in his speeches of 1865 he said that the Southern
institutions “must be broken up and relaid…This can only be done
by treating them and holding them as a conquered people”.
Slavery notwithstanding, it was hard for the South to regard the
North as an ethical society.
>
> William Tecumsah Sherman’s march from Atlanta to Savannah in
1864 was a deliberate policy of scorched earth and scorched
soul. It was, wrote James McPherson, retribution for secession
(not for slavery), a war of plunder and arson. Sherman, himself,
said that his aim was to terrorize the state of Georgia and
demoralize it. By 1865, the South was “an economic desert”. A
quarter of the Confederacy’s white men of military age perished,
along with 40% of Southern livestock, 50% of Southern farm
machinery and thousands of miles of railroads. Whereas in 1860
the South had 30% of the national wealth, in 1870 it had only
12%.
>
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Re: Blasts from the 2012 to 2013 past when there was more HOPE
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DIR By: AGelbert
Date: July 7, 2018, 3:41 pm
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> [quote]Fishermen Find Lost Baby Walrus, Now Safe at SeaLife
Center
>
>
> Like many sea mammals, baby walruses have a deep tactile
connection with their moms who offer them both nourshiment and
protection during the early years of their lives. But every once
in a while, something goes wrong, and the little ones become
separated from their natural mothers.
>
> The Alaska SeaLife Center is currently rehabilitating one such
baby, a male Pacific walrus calf that was stranded near Barrow
last month. The calf, estimated at four to six weeks old when
found, was spotted by local fishermen who came across the calf
in North Salt Lagoon. A large group of walruses were sighted
passing Barrow on floating ice a few days earlier and the calf
is presumed to have been separated from this group.
>
>
> Read more:
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[center]That baby Walrus is amazingly
affectionate!✨[/center]
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Re: Blasts from the 2012 to 2013 past when there was more HOPE
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DIR By: AGelbert
Date: July 7, 2018, 3:53 pm
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Agelbert NOTE: My estimate for the first ice free summer at the
North Pole of 2017 was a bit off. However, since it may happen
this year or next, I was a LOT closer than the 2030-2040
scientific consensus (Seymour Laxon, professor of climate
physics at University College) at the time. 😎
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> [quote][move]Arctic Ice Melting Fast[/move]
>
> [center]The sea ice in the Arctic is expected to hit a record
low by the end of the month.[/center]
>
> By Edyta Zielinska | August 21, 2012
>
> The ebb of Arctic ice during the warm months of the year is
expected to reach an all time low by the end of the summer.
There will be 186,000 fewer square miles of ice than the
previous lowest record, which was in 2007, according to BBC
News, and the ice is expected to continue melting into mid- to
late September.
>
> “We got very close to a record minimum last year,” Seymour
Laxon, professor of climate physics at University College
London, told the BBC. The trend may force scientists to
reconsider their predicted date for when the Arctic will be
completely melted. In 2007, the Intergovernmental Panel on
Climate Change reported that as a result of the melting trends,
they expected that the Arctic would be ice-free by the year
2100.
>
> “When we had the 2007 minimum, that date was brought forward
to 2030-2040,” said Laxon. “The fact that we look set to get
another record ice minimum in such a short space of time means
that the modelers may once again need to go and look at what
their projections are telling them,”
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Yes indeed. The modelers are way too conservative with the 2030
date.
Agelbert's non-peer reviewed thoroughly thorough scientific
examination of the arctic ice melt projects the summer of 2017
as the first summer that all the OLD ice will be gone. That
summer will be ice free. Of course new ice will form during the
fall and winter but there will be less each year as the open
ocean albedo (2 to 10% vs 80% for ice) absorbs more heat (from
solar photons, RE, not the atmosphere ;D) thereby delaying ice
formation each fall and initiating earlier ice melt each spring.
WHD is witness that I have already stated this earlier here.
A bull market in floating houses on the East coast is comin'
(and a bear market in low lying ocean front property in the
whole fuc king WORLD!).
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> [quote]Agelbert's non-peer reviewed thoroughly thorough
scientific examination of the arctic ice melt projects the
summer of 2017 as the first summer that all the OLD ice will be
gone.
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> WHD is witness that I have already stated this earlier here.
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I know I asked you, but I didn't see the response. When you say
OLD ice, there's some pretty old fuc king ice on Greenland and
Antarctica. Are you saying an entirely ice free world in
August/Sept, in 2017? :o Cause that's going to displace WHD's
entirely un-peer-reviewed assessment of about 2-3 billion
people.
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> WHD,
> No. I'm talking about just the floating stuff in the Arctic.
The OLD ice is the kind that doesn't thaw from year to year on
the floating ice pack. The floating stuff around Antarctica will
last longer but I don't have an estimate on that at this time.
>
> As to the ice of Greenland, once the surrounding sea is ice
free during the summer, big chunks may just slide off because of
tunneling melt water creating a lubricated based between the
land and ice cover and the lack of brake on the glacial slide
because the sea has no floating pack in it. I don't think we'll
see the ice over Greenland and Antarctica go in our lifetimes
(next 20 years or so for me) but we may see some pretty big
chunks come off.
>
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>
> agelbert,
>
> Glad to hear it. As if we don't have enough problems, without
3 billion refugees.
>
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Re: Blasts from the 2012 to 2013 past when there was more HOPE
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DIR By: AGelbert
Date: July 7, 2018, 4:03 pm
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> I posted on an article by this lady about her decision to
change her chicken farming methods despite industry pressures
not to do so over a year ago. I thanked her and asked her to
keep the welfare of the chickens in mind above and beyond the
profit motive while raising them as this would keep their
existence less stressful and their overall health would improve
because, even though we eat them, we should treat them humanely
while they live. I mentioned she would be much happier as well.
Apparently enough people talked to her this way because she
listened!
>
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> [center]
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>
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Re: Blasts from the 2012 to 2013 past when there was more HOPE
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Date: July 7, 2018, 4:31 pm
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Agelbert NOTE: As far as racist Trump is concerned, our brutal
eugenics and anti-immigration past is prologue. THAT was when
America was "great", according to that POS POTUS. Trump wants
to return the USA to the Calvin Collidge model of
anti-immigration and brutal racist eugenics that Hitler so
admired.
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> [center]
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>
> [quote]
> [center]The Horrifying American Roots of Nazi Eugenics
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>
> Edwin Black
> History News Network
>
>
> Mr. Black is the author of IBM and the Holocaust and the just
released War Against the Weak: Eugenics and America's Campaign
to Create a Master Race, from which the following article is
drawn.
>
> Hitler and his henchmen victimized an entire continent and
exterminated millions in his quest for a co-called "Master
Race."
>
> But the concept of a white, blond-haired, blue-eyed master
Nordic race didn't originate with Hitler. The idea was created
in the United States, and cultivated in California, decades
before Hitler came to power. California eugenicists played an
important, although little known, role in the American eugenics
movement's campaign for ethnic cleansing.
>
> Eugenics was the racist pseudoscience determined to wipe away
all human beings deemed "unfit," preserving only those who
conformed to a Nordic stereotype. Elements of the philosophy
were enshrined as national policy by forced sterilization and
segregation laws, as well as marriage restrictions, enacted in
twenty-seven states. In 1909, California became the third state
to adopt such laws. Ultimately, eugenics practitioners
coercively sterilized some 60,000 Americans, barred the marriage
of thousands, forcibly segregated thousands in "colonies," and
persecuted untold numbers in ways we are just learning. Before
World War II, nearly half of coercive sterilizations were done
in California, and even after the war, the state accounted for a
third of all such surgeries.
>
> California was considered an epicenter of the American
eugenics movement. During the Twentieth Century's first decades,
California's eugenicists included potent but little known race
scientists, such as Army venereal disease specialist Dr. Paul
Popenoe, citrus magnate and Polytechnic benefactor Paul Gosney,
Sacramento banker Charles M. Goethe, as well as members of the
California State Board of Charities and Corrections and the
University of California Board of Regents.
>
>
>
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> During the '20s, Carnegie Institution eugenic scientists
cultivated deep personal and professional relationships with
Germany's fascist eugenicists. [size=12pt]In Mein Kampf,
published in 1924, Hitler quoted American eugenic ideology and
openly displayed a thorough knowledge of American eugenics.
"There is today one state," wrote Hitler, "in which at least
weak beginnings toward a better conception [of immigration] are
noticeable. Of course, it is not our model German Republic, but
the United States."
>
> Hitler proudly told his comrades just how closely he followed
the progress of the American eugenics movement. "I have studied
with great interest," he told a fellow Nazi, "the laws of
several American states concerning prevention of reproduction by
people whose progeny would, in all probability, be of no value
or be injurious to the racial stock."
>
> Hitler
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/>even wrote a fan letter to American eugenic leader Madison
Grant
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/>calling his race-based eugenics book, The Passing of the Great
Race his "bible."
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Note: Hitler was praising US immigration policy (actually it
was a NO immigration policy) by none other than Calvin Coolidge
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/>who's term was from August 2, 1923 – March 4, 1929. Look up
what
"silent" Cal's home state of Vermont was up to in those days.
Just the other day the legislature here in Vermont apologized
for sterilizing "undesirables" during that period ranging from
Abenakis to French Canadians (better late than never, I
suppose). Vermont was on a eugenics roll and Coolidge totally
approved of this racist crap.
Learn more here:
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Re: Blasts from the 2012 to 2013 past when there was more HOPE
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DIR By: AGelbert
Date: July 7, 2018, 4:37 pm
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> [quote]The Top 100 Healthiest, Budget-Friendly Foods
>
> Last year, 45 million Americans — more than one in seven of us
— participated in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program
(SNAP, formerly known as food stamps), the nation’s largest food
assistance program. On average, SNAP participants receive $134
per month to buy food and other essentials. But they aren’t the
only ones who are trying to work within a budget to feed
themselves and their families, and to do so as healthfully as
possible.
>
> With food prices on the rise and the economy yet to really
pick up, Environmental Working Group (EWG) has released a guide
called Good Food on a Tight Budget. “EWG researchers assessed
nearly 1,200 foods, comparing national average food prices and
19 different nutrients in order to identify the most nutritious
foods that are easy on the wallet and the planet,” according to
the press release. The top 100 foods are listed in the guide,
which also includes quick-and-easy, adaptable recipes and tips
for saving time and money while shopping, planning and preparing
meals.
>
> Bananas, watermelons and pears are among the fruits that
deliver “the biggest nutritional bang for the buck.” Broccoli,
carrots and onions are “best buy” vegetables, and cabbage, at
less than ten cents per serving, is also a versatile one that
can be used in salads, sandwiches, stir-fries, stews and soups.
Oatmeal, barley and rice make great grains for your budget, your
health and the environment, while a variety of beans, nuts and
turkey are best bets among protein sources. The guide also
covers dairy foods, cooking oils and spices.
>
> Some of the best ways to save money, EWG advises, is to buy in
bulk when possible and to cook and freeze your food in batches.
You’ll also want to avoid most processed foods, which are often
more expensive and less healthy than fresh, whole foods. There’s
also always the option of growing your own fruits and
vegetables.
>
> Foods were rated by EWG based on a balance of five factors:
>
> 1. Beneficial nutrients
> 2. Nutrients to minimize (saturated fat, sodium and total
sugar)
> 3. Price
> 4. Extent of processing
> 5. Harmful contaminants from environmental pollution and food
packaging.
>
> Nutrients and price took precedence over the rest. Read more
about EWG’s methodology here.
>
> “Putting good food on your family’s table on a $5-or-$6-a-day
budget is tough, but it’s possible,” said guide co-author Dawn
Undurraga, EWG nutritionist and registered dietitian, in the
press release. “When shoppers fill their grocery carts with the
foods on EWG’s lists, they’ll be doing something good for their
health and environment, meanwhile lowering their grocery bills
and exposures to the worst chemicals.”
>
> Download EWG’s Good Food on a Tight Budget guide here.
>
> Today, as kids across the country get ready to go back to
school, EWG will release its recommendations for healthy and
affordable school lunches.
>
>
> Read more:
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I just want to add that eating properly is the best investment
you can make because it keeps your medical and dental bills
down. An apple a day may not keep the doctor away but a proper
diet sure will!
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> [quote]IQ Foods: Processed Food Lowers IQ in Children,
Nutritious Food Raises It
>
>
>
> Processed foods are the staple of far too many diets,
particularly in the United States where 105 million people have
either diabetes or prediabetes. These processed foods are filled
with white sugar, high-fructose corn syrup, aspartame,
artificial food colorings, and a wide variety of other toxic
substances. Interestingly enough, research shows that these are
some of the worst IQ foods. Given the makeup of processed foods,
is it any wonder that children are suffering from IQ reduction
upon introducing these foods into their diet?
>
> IQ Foods: The Findings
>
> British researchers uncovered the connection between processed
foods and reduced IQ. They followed what 14,000 children ate and
drank at the ages of 3, 4, 7, and 8.5 years of age, with answers
submitted via parents through questionnaires. The researchers
found that if children were consuming a processed diet at age 3,
IQ decline could begin over the next five years. The study found
that by age 8, the children had suffered the IQ decline.
>
>
>
> On the contrary, children who ate a nutrient-rich diet were
found to increase their IQ over the 3 year period. The foods
considered nutrient-rich by the researchers were most likely
conventional fruits and vegetables. If children were to eat a
wide variety of organic produce, superfoods, mineral-rich
plants, and perhaps even consume a food-based multivitamin, the
researchers would most likely see a substantial IQ increase.
This eating plan would also benefit the children — or even
adults — in other aspects of their lives as well, such as better
overall health & well-being.
>
> Processed foods have been known to wreak havoc on the body for
quite some time. One joint American and Spanish study has even
found that junk food products, particularly those containing
trans fats, can make healthy young men infertile by damaging
their sperm. Another study, conducted by scientists from the
University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria and the University of
Granada, reported that both junk food and fast food consumption
can bring on depression. The link was so strong, in fact, that
those who consumed fast food were 51% more likely to be
depressed. It isn’t surprising that some of the worst IQ foods
are the same foods that cause numerous health complications.
>
>
> Read more:
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> [quote]
> Life (Re)Cycle
>
> [center] God's Inordinate Fondness for Beetles
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>
> [center]Death breeds life in the world’s most diverse and
abundant group of animals.[/center]
>
> By Bernd Heinrich | August 1, 2012
>
> An inordinate fondness for beetles.” That reportedly was the
wry retort of famed British biologist J.B.S. Haldane to a
theologian who asked him if anything could be concluded about
the Creator’s predilections by studying creation. Haldane was
referring to the fact that there are [size=14pt]nearly half a
million beetle species known on Earth. Having been an avid
beetle collector since I was a small boy, I can say I share a
certain fondness for the insects.
>
> The diversity of beetles on our planet is amazing, and their
behaviors and life histories are just as varied. Nowhere is this
more evident than in beetles that dine upon carrion. I find
carrion beetles not only wonderfully diverse, but also
emblematic of natural cycles of birth and death, the focus of my
latest book, Life Everlasting.
>
> As a scientist, I worked for years on the behavior of ravens,
the ultimate carcass-disposal specialists, so I was not
particularly mindful of the roles beetles play in the recycling
process. While large scavengers, such as ravens, eagles, wolves,
and coyotes, quickly dispose of animal carcasses in snowy
Northern Hemisphere forests, insects take the recycling lead in
summer. One group in particular, the burying beetles, or
nicrophorines, [b]bury whole carcasses to create an underground
smorgasbord for their larvae.[/size]
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>
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> [center][/center]
>
> Burying beetles are conveniently attracted simply by setting
out a dead mouse. After one beetle discovers a fresh carcass, it
wafts an attracting scent to “call” a mate, who arrives in
minutes. The pair transports the carcass to a suitable burial
site and inters it there.
>
> The fate of large animal carcasses, such as moose or deer, may
be similarly quick, and it usually involves large scavengers as
well as small. Plant carcasses present a more complicated
challenge, however, and the disposal of dying and dead trees may
take decades, sometimes even centuries.
>
> Because it is a process that proceeds at a glacial pace, the
decomposition of a tree is not as flashy as a hyena killing an
ailing antelope, or even the burying of a mouse by a pair of
Nicrophorus beetles. So the fate of dead trees and the roles
that beetles play in it are therefore easily taken for granted,
especially since one seldom sees the beetles as adults—they
come, lay eggs, and leave, and the larvae then stay hidden
inside for months or years. Yet the beetles use the tree as a
food source, and thereby help degrade its tissues and recycle
its remains into other organisms as surely as burying beetles do
those of mice and birds.
>
> Peel back the bark of almost any tree that is dying or
recently dead, and you find the fantastically patterned feeding
galleries of beetle larvae, primarily members of the family
Scolytidae.
>
>
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>
> Each beetle species leaves distinctive tracks, and each
specializes in depositing eggs in a narrow range of tree
species. Digging deeper inside the dead tree, one encounters
long-horned beetles (Cerambycidae)
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>
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> and emerald beetles (Buprestidae),
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> [center][/center]
>
> their much larger larvae move from gnawing the cambium, part
of the plant’s vascular system, to burrowing deep into the xylem
at the heart of the tree.
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>
> Reminded day and night in the summer when I hear the chewing
of sawyer beetle grubs in elderly trees,
>
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> I think of the thousands of gorgeous beetle species in woods
the world over that make forest life possible. The topic of
disposal of the dead is reminiscent of metamorphosis, and is key
to the ecology of life everlasting. Beetles occupy a major hub
of it. Haldane had more reason to be correct than he may have
realized.
>
> Bernd Heinrich is an internationally recognized scientist and
the author of numerous award-winning books, including the best
selling Mind of the Raven, Why We Run, and Winter World. He is a
frequent contributor to national publications and professor
emeritus of biology at the University of Vermont.
>
>
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