How Monsanto Destroyed Rural Argentina

 

This is how the EPA describes Glyphosate. 

the EPA states, “Glyphosate has low toxicity for humans. Protective eye wear is recommended for the few products that may cause eye irritation. Entry into agricultural fields is allowed 12-hours after application of these products.” 

Just what does 'low' mean?  It means slow poisoning for constant exposure.  Worse it directly attacks the reproductive tissues in particular.

I consider it implicated in the following two global catastrophes.    

        1  Amphibian population collapse
        2  Human sperm count decine

 and as an accessory to the bee colony collapse. 

Argentina shows us what heavy uncontrolled exposure will accomplish.  It is in fact disastrous and massively destructive to a healthy agricultural ecosystem.  It will demand years of correct practice to reform the soils properly and to allow the ecosystem to fully rebound.
 

How Monsanto Destroyed Rural Argentina

 December 1, 2015

http://www.wakingtimes.com/2015/12/01/how-monsanto-destroyed-rural-argentina/

Camila Veron, 2, born with multiple organ problems and severely disabled, stands outside her home in Avia Terai, in Chaco province, Argentina, March 31, 2013. Her mother was told, “the water made this happen because they spray a lot of poison here.”

CREDIT: Natacha Pisarenko/AP

Vic Bishop, Staff

Argentinean “farm belt” communities with population of 12 million people know, perhaps more than others, the costs of becoming one of the early adopters of Monsanto’s biotech farming model. The country, historically known for its grass-fed beef industry, has undergone a profound change over the last 20 years as it transitioned into becoming one of the biggest world producers of genetically-modified (GM) soybeans.

In 1996, Monsanto came in with its promises of higher crop yields and lower pesticide use, selling its GM soy seeds, as well as corn and cotton seeds. The farming communities took to these promises only to find themselves using nine times more agrochemicals by 2013 at a combined 84 million gallons per year, compared to nine million gallons in 1990, and faced with a surge of health problems such as hypothyroidism, chronic respiratory illnesses and cancer.

Agrochemicals are now routinely found in homes, schools and drinking water nearby soy, cotton and corn fields. They are handled inside residential neighborhoods with little training or compliance regarding protective gear and mixing concentrations. Pesticide storage containers are often reused in farming communities, at times to even hold drinking water.

Empty agrochemical containers lay discarded at a recycling center in Quimili, Santiago del Estero province, Argentina, May 2, 2013. CREDIT: Natacha Pisarenko/AP

Although spraying herbicides and pesticides next to residential homes and schools is forbidden in many Argentinean provinces, the reality is that most laws regarding agrochemical usage are ignored and their enforcement is lackadaisical, at best. Some provinces allow spraying as close as 55 yards from populated areas, and about one-third of the provinces have no limits whatsoever. There are many documented cases where GM crops are planted just a few feet away from homes and classroom windows, resulting in chemical spray drifting into schools full of children and into family homes.

With soybeans selling for about $500 a ton, growers plant where they can, often disregarding Monsanto’s guidelines and provincial law by spraying with no advance warning, and even in windy conditions.

“I prepared millions of liters of poison without any kind of protection, no gloves, masks or special clothing,” he said. “I didn’t know anything. I only learned later what it did to me, after contacting scientists.” [Source]

A collective of doctors and scientists are now actively warning against the uncontrolled use of agrochemicals. These professionals believe that the chemicals are responsible for a surge in health problems in farming communities and around the country.

 “The change in how agriculture is produced has brought, frankly, a change in the profile of diseases. We’ve gone from a pretty healthy population to one with a high rate of cancer, birth defects, and illnesses seldom seen before.”~ Dr. Medardo Avila Vazquez, a pediatrician and neonatologist who co-founded Doctors of Fumigated Towns, part of a growing movement demanding enforcement of agricultural safety rules

The Associated Press documented dozens of cases where agrochemicals were used unsafely and the resulting impact on families and communities, many of them reflected in the images below.

Former farmworker Fabian Tomasi, 47, of Basavilbaso, in Entre Rios province, Argentina, on March 29, 2013. Tomasi suffers from polyneuropathy. “I prepared millions of liters of poison without any kind of protection, no gloves, masks or special clothing. I didn’t know anything. I only learned later what it did to me, after contacting scientists,” he said. CREDIT: Natacha Pisarenko/AP

Students ride a motorbike past a field of biotech corn on their way to school in Pozo del Toba, Santiago del Estero province, Argentina, May 3, 2013. CREDIT: Natacha Pisarenko/AP

Locals wait to speak with Dr. Damian Verzenassi about health concerns they have about agrochemicals in the main square of Alvear, in Santa Fe province, Argentina, March 9, 2013. CREDIT: Natacha Pisarenko/AP

Aixa Cano, 5, who has hairy moles all over her body, sits on a stoop outside her home in Avia Terai, in Chaco province, Argentina, April 1, 2013. Doctors say Aixa’s birth defect may be linked to agrochemicals, although this cannot be proven. In Chaco, children are four times more likely to be born with devastating birth defects since the biotechnology boom. CREDIT: Natacha Pisarenko/AP

Silvia Alvarez leans against her home while keeping an eye on her son, Ezequiel Moreno, who was born with hydrocephalus, in Gancedo, in Chaco province, Argentina, April 1, 2013. Chaco provincial birth reports show that congenital defects quadrupled in the decade after GM crops arrived. CREDIT: Natacha Pisarenko/AP

Activist Oscar Alfredo Di Vincensi has been fighting that agrochemical spraying not be allowed within 1,000 meters of homes. Pictured here in the main square of Alberti, in Buenos Aires province, Argentina, April 16, 2013. Di Vincensi stood in a field waving a court order barring spraying within 1,000 meters of homes in his town of Alberti; a tractor driver doused him in pesticide. CREDIT: Natacha Pisarenko/AP

Erika, left, and her twin sister Macarena, who suffer from chronic respiratory illness, play in their backyard near recycled agrochemical containers filled with water that is used for flushing their toilet, feeding their chickens and washing their clothes, near the town of Avia Terai, in Chaco province, Argentina, on March 31, 2013. CREDIT: Natacha Pisarenko/AP

Felix San Roman walks on his property in Rawson, in Buenos Aires province, Argentina, April 16, 2013. San Roman was beaten by farmers when he complained about clouds of chemicals drifting onto his property. “This is a small town where nobody confronts anyone, and the authorities look the other way. All I want is for them to follow the existing law, which says you can’t do this within 1,500 meters. Nobody follows this. How can you control it?” he said. CREDIT: Natacha Pisarenko/AP

Glyphosate is listed as one of the world’s safest herbicides, which has resulted in farmers using it in higher concentrations and mixing it with other harmful poisons. The Argentinean government has relied on industry research provided by the EPA to help guide its recommendations regarding glyphosate use. On their website, the EPA states, “Glyphosate has low toxicity for humans. Protective eye wear is recommended for the few products that may cause eye irritation. Entry into agricultural fields is allowed 12-hours after application of these products.” Hence, any efforts or recommendations towards stricter regulations in Argentina continue to fizzle out or have been completely ignored. Glyphosate mixed with other agrochemicals continues to be applied directly to crops on a vast scale throughout the country.

Molecular biologist Dr. Andres Carrasco at the University of Buenos Aires says the burden from the chemical cocktails is worrisome, but even glyphosate alone could spell trouble for human health. He found that injecting a very low dose of glyphosate into embryos can change levels of retinoic acid, causing the same sort of spinal defects in frogs and chickens that doctors increasingly are registering in communities where farm chemicals are ubiquitous.

This acid, a form of vitamin A, is fundamental for keeping cancers in check and triggering genetic expression, the process by which embryonic cells develop into organs and limbs.

At Least 15,000 people Killed Every Year by Cancer Treatments

It is long overdue for someone to throw up a real number that spells out just how many are in fact sped to their grave by the attempted treatments.  We also need to understand that merely postponing death briefly while ensuring it is not a good plan.


Life is precious but only if you are healthy.  If you are suffering and death is inevitable, acceptance becomes possible and an excellent choice.  Frantically taking your doctor's distorted guidance is a lousy choice and needs to be rethought.


We need to address healing.  The first step may be meditation and spiritual counseling.  Please note that prayer done properly happens to be effective meditation.  All this conditions the mind to separate itself from the disease and to address support protocols that can help.  We have discussed many therapeutic protocols here.

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Chemotherapy worse than ISIS? At least 15,000 people killed every year by cancer treatments

Tuesday, December 01, 2015 by: Ethan A. Huff, staff writer

http://www.naturalnews.com/052161_chemotherapy_cancer_treatments_ISIS_terrorism.html#ixzz3t9SKmPxc

(NaturalNews) It's the gift that keeps on giving: ISIS, and the constant terror threat from this extremist group that acts as an enabler for the federal government to perpetually reinforce its security, surveillance, military, police state, and privacy invasion apparatus across the nation and throughout the world. But did you know that there's an even bigger threat lurking at your local oncologist's office?

Chemotherapy, the bread and butter of the cancer industry's multi-billion-dollar sick care system, kills far more people every year than ISIS terrorists, according to Iraqi-British politician Maurice Saatchi. Saatchi's wife, who was diagnosed with ovarian cancer, died in 2011 after being treated with the chemical poison, which remains the standard protocol for treating cancer throughout the West.

After consulting with multiple senior medical professionals, Saatchi came to the stark realization that deaths from cancer treatment are quite common – one in 10 cancer patients, he was told, die not from their cancers but from their prescribed treatments. Both chemotherapy and radiation treatments weaken patients' immune systems to such a degree that their bodies are unable to both fight the cancer and support life.

The result is that cancer patients end up dying from infections that could have been prevented had their immune systems not been damaged by chemical poisons and radiation, which indiscriminately destroy all cells, both healthy and malignant.

"What we do know is that the cancer drugs do such damage to the immune system that the patient is helpless to resist fatal infections like E.coli or MRSA or septicemia," stated Saatchi, noting that some 15,000 cancer patients die every single year as a result of conventional cancer treatments.

Many people aren't aware of this fact, he added, because the World Health Organization's (WHO) Office for National Statistics only docments "the single underlying cause of death," which of course it simply records as "cancer." But the truth is that cancer often isn't the cause of cancer patients' early deaths.

"In other words it doesn't record what is known as the sequence of causation, sometimes known as the sequence of conditions that led to the actual death," he's quoted as saying by The Telegraph (U.K.).

Saatchi introduces legislation to peel back legal gag orders preventing doctors from treating cancer patients alternatively

For years, Natural News and other alternative media outlets have been warning readers that cancer treatments are often more threatening than cancer itself! And we've been called kooky conspiracy theorists and worse for publishing this truth, though now the tables are starting to turn.

Mainstream politicians, medical professionals, doctors, academic researchers, scientists and others are beginning to come out of the woodwork to admit what we've been saying all along – that something needs to change, and quickly, if we're going to make any real strides towards actual cancer prevention and curative medicine.

"We don't want patients being treated like mice, but the current state of law on medical negligence requires [doctors] to stick to the standard, well-worn procedure," Saatchi added, noting that oncologists' hands are tied by political correctness and pharmaceutical corruption, disallowing them the freedom to explore other cancer treatment modalities like the Gerson Method, for instance, or Phoenix Tears cannabis preparations.

Saatchi recently introduced a piece of legislation in the House of Lords entitled the "Medical Innovation Bill" that would allow doctors in the U.K. to custom-craft innovative cancer treatments without fear of retribution by government authorities or special interest groups.

"We want responsible innovation," he told legislators. "My motive for this bill is exactly the same as what the relatives of the bereaved say on the news every night - if I can help one other person from a fate like this that would be a blessing.

http://www.naturalnews.com/052161_chemotherapy_cancer_treatments_ISIS_terrorism.html#ixzz3t9SDKhkU

Scientists Invent Revolutionary Material To Clean Up Oil Spills

 

I am very skeptical about this as that story is often a default for the class of any highly absorbent material.   The kicker of course is always price and inventory costs.  Just in time is demanded and never practical.

A lot of materials have proven to work well enough or even better.   

The economic model has not been made to work, not least because the default cost of a spill is to allow it to sink out of sight or crash onto a beach and to call in volunteers.  Recovery has to happen before all that happens and the reality is that you have a few days at best.  The supply side is able to help but also cannot obtain a deep enough insurance solution.

Otherwise, the industry is on the verge of outright replacement.

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Scientists Invent Revolutionary Material To Clean Up Oil Spills

November 30, 2015 by Sophie McAdam

http://www.trueactivist.com/scientists-invent-revolutionary-material-to-clean-up-oil-spills/

The cutting-edge material can absorb up to 33 times its own weight in oil!

Scientists in Australia have created an amazing new material that could prove vital in a future ecological disaster like the BP oil spill of 2010. Since experts have warned that future oil spills are ‘unavoidable’, this exciting new invention couldn’t have come soon enough.

The material is called a boron nitride nanosheet, and it acts just like a sponge. Scientist Dr Weiwei Lei from Deakins University’s Institute for Frontier Materials (IFM) said that the nanosheet is “made up of flakes which are just several nanometers [one billionth of a meter] in thickness, with tiny holes which can increase its surface area per gram to effectively the size of 5.5 tennis courts.”

The research team, which included scientists from Drexel University, Philadelphia, and Missouri University of Science and Technology, created the super-sponge using boron nitride powder known as ‘white graphite.’ This was originally invented in 2013, but transforming this powder into a sponge-like material was the tricky part. After two years, the team have managed to break the white graphite down into atomically thin sheets that were then used to make a sponge.

“The pores in the nanosheets provide the surface area to absorb oils and organic solvents up to 33 times its own weight,” Dr Lei said.

These nanosheets are perfect in every way: they do not burn, they can withstand flame, and they can be used in flexible and transparent electrical and heat insulation, in addition to many other things. The material is now ready to start trialling.

Read More: http://www.trueactivist.com/scientists-invent-revolutionary-material-to-clean-up-oil-spills/

Professor Ying (Ian) Chen, the lead author on the paper, explained:

“Oil spills are a global problem and wreak havoc on our aquatic ecosystems, not to mention cost billions of dollars in damage. Everyone remembers the Gulf Coast disaster, but here in Australia they are a regular problem, and not just in our waters. Oil spills from trucks and other vehicles can close freeways for an entire day, again amounting to large economic losses.”

Dr. Chen pointed out that current methods of cleaning up oil spills are “inefficient and unsophisticated, taking too long, causing ongoing and expensive damage.” As we have previously reported, materials used to clean up oil spills can often do more harm than good-  which is why this revolutionary material is so important.

“We are so excited to have finally got to this stage after two years of trying to work out how to turn what we knew was a good material into something that could be practically used,” Dr Chen said.

So are we, and no doubt these penguins will also be pleased!

The Workplace Will Be Radically Different By 2025; Are You Ready?

What this all means is that the labor force is adapting to take advantage of both changing and expanding opportunities.  It is possible to have a full time job and to also take on additional responsibilities such as been an uber driver.

More and more folks will adjust their lives to this.  Certainly I am seeing more and more of this.

Real full time employment comes from the communications sharp edge which is human to human selling.  That simply demands the biological component to properly establish.

In the long term, doctors need to become healers as well as technicians.

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The Workplace Will Be Radically Different By 2025; Are You Ready?

NOV 30, 2015 @ 06:23 AM 

Elaine Pofeldt ,

http://www.forbes.com/sites/elainepofeldt/2015/11/30/the-workplace-will-be-radically-different-by-2025-are-you-ready/

Work, as we know it, has changed dramatically in the past few years. Many Americans are frustrated and confused about the smartest way to get in front of what is happening. Should we start taking coding classes at General Assembly, invest in a new degree, or launch a solo business so we aren’t dependent on a “steady” job that could disappear overnight?

There are no clear answers, but one thing is certain: Many of the changes we’re seeing now—automation, heavier reliance on freelance and other flexible talent, the rise of digital platforms that connect people with work in the “gig economy,” and a heightened demand for tech skills—are only going to gather momentum.

To get insight into how to thrive in our fast-evolving economy, I spoke recently with Andrew Karpie, a research analyst at Azul Partners/Spend Matters. He covers the ways in which technology is changing how enterprises find and procure their contingent workforce and labor-based services. Karpie is currently tracking and modeling digital ecosystems that are emerging to connect enterprises and the growing independent and freelance workforce. Here is an edited transcript of our conversation.

Pofeldt: Are robots going to take our jobs?

Karpie: For decades, we have been talking about the elimination of jobs through automation. That will continue. But now the discussion is also focusing on how technology is changing work arrangements and work itself. Today some argue that technology has always created new opportunity. But others argue it is different now. Technology has advanced to include artificial intelligence, machine learning, and natural language processing, which can replace people in white collar jobs. They say the number of jobs eliminated will greatly exceed those created. We’re going to have a shrinking workforce, so that should mitigate the problem. Also, there are new ways emerging to structure completely new kinds of work arrangements. I think the bigger issue is going to be: When new work opportunities are created, who will be trained and capable of doing what needs to be done—and where will they be?

Elaine Pofeldt: How will platforms like Uber and Upwork change the way work gets done?

Andrew Karpie: What I call online “work intermediation platforms” have begun to have very significant and visible impacts throughout the economy—that is, enabling new ways of arranging work and conducting it. When work requirements and worker capability/availability are digitized, then work arrangements can be arranged and structured across a network. We are going from a place where work arrangements established between workers, businesses and consumers were barely intermediated by technology to one where technology supports the intermediation, often 100% with end-to-end-platforms like Upwork and Uber. In other words, technology is more and more the “digital middleman in the cloud” that can reshape and expand how work can be arranged and structured. An Uber driver—in any location, in any Uber city—can choose to work any number of hours any day of the week—even do one ride a day—and doesn’t have to invoice anyone, etc. Similarly, I can be a web developer anywhere in the world arranging and performing work through an Upwork, or I can be a scientific expert participating in a crowdsourced problem-solution challenge.

Pofeldt: What does it mean for the workplace that more people will be “coming to work” via platforms?

Karpie: There are enormous implications for the workplace that businesses are going to have to adapt to. The workplace today is structured to engage with individual workers—whether “permanent” or temporary contract workers—who actually “come to work” or sometimes work remotely—or alternatively to contract for labor-based projects or services. Platforms now introduce a whole broad range of new ways in which talent, expertise, skills, capabilities, etc., can be channeled into and applied in work situations in a business. While this creates new options to source badly needed talent and skills, it also poses a large set of new challenges: how to structure and manage the procurement and utilization of these new forms of work, how to deal with compliance and (what we’ve heard much about this year) classification risks. It will take some time, but I think well before 2025, the workplace as we know it today will be completely transformed.

Pofeldt: Does this mean the “job” as we know it is going to disappear?

Karpie: The big shift that we’re seeing is the dissipation of the industrial employment labor economy and standardized forms of work arrangements. What we’re seeing now is that technology is making it more and more possible support other types of work arrangements. Now the workforce is starting to make that shift as well. People are calling it the freelance and gig economy. I think we’re heading to a new paradigm of work, with various kinds of work arrangements. Full-time, extended engagements of workers by businesses are not going to go away by any means, but a business’s workforce will increasingly consist of many different kinds of work arrangements.

Pofeldt: So how can people reading this prepare themselves for this future? What skills do they need to navigate it? And can they actually navigate it successfully, in that they will still be able to work in the future?

Karpie: I think the answer to this question is simpler than it seems, and it’s just an extension of a long-term trend. Understand that you need to acquire skills, know-how, etc., that will be relevant and valuable in the economy that is evolving, and also keep in mind that the labor marketplace continues to become more fluid—meaning work requirements change more quickly and so do “jobs.” Whether or not you will be working in the future will depend upon whether you have human capital that will be valued in the marketplace. Much more so than in the past, workers will have to decide how much they will invest in their own human capital development, make the necessary resource allocation trade-offs, and become prepared to make changes and frequent course-corrections over the course of their careers. They will also need to begin transitioning to other support structures beyond “corporate welfare.” The good news: I think we are already seeing these adaptions occurring in post baby-boomer generations.

Truck Driver Describes Bigfoot Sightings

 

 


We have two excellent sightings of Bigfoot here from a truly skilled woodsman.  Even better, I have now read hundreds of individual reports most actually double checked to ensure the existence of the witness and although i expected to get a white Bigfoot, this is the first one.


I want to note that true woodsmen will typically have one or two sightings over a long career.   So there is plenty of luck involved.


This recent sighting included the creature obviously devouring likely road kill which is again expected.  What is not so expected is the animals calm behavior.  It knew it was safe enough and obviously did not care .  This is possibly a change in the general behavior of the creature that is duly noted.

Readers are reminded that there exists literally thousands of individual reports like this one. 

Truck Driver Describes Bigfoot Sightings

1972 – Alpena, Northern Michigan / September 2015 – Eastern Texas

Randy, a truck driver from Pennsylvania, called in to tell of two Bigfoot sightings that he had in his life.

http://www.phantomsandmonsters.com/2015/11/daily-2-cents-truck-driver-describes.html

“I actually saw two bigfoot in my life. I'm 57 years old and I saw my first one when I was deer hunting up in Northern Michigan, just outside of Alpena, about 18 miles just outside Alpena. I was actually able to watch him with binoculars at about a hundred and fifty yards for about 45 minutes. 

He was in the middle of a powerline, going back and forth and through the woods I got a really good look at him for a really long time. I saw my second Bigfoot, I was actually about 35 feet away from him. I was in Texas on Highway 79 in September of this year in this little town called Eastern Texas, it's just a little blip on the map. He was actually off on the shoulder of the road. It was during one of those full moons so there was a lot of deer out on the road so I was pretty cautious as to what I was doing. Now I was coming around a curve and I saw this great big thing out in the shoulder of the road and I said, 'What the heck is that?' And you know it was all white. This guy was all white. And I hit my bright lights on him and he actually rose up and turned around and looked at me. 

I was 35 feet away from him when he was looking right at me. This was a Bigfoot without question. He was eating something on the shoulder of the road down there. He didn't pay any attention to me. It was 2 o'clock in the morning. I was the only one out there on the road and there wasn't any where for me to pull over because it was on a curve right there. I tried to get a picture of him from inside the truck but the flash from the camera flashed up against the window and I wasn't able to get a picture. 

But this guy, I would say, he wasn't fully standing when he turned around and looked at me but I would say he go about 7 and a half, maybe 8 feet. My guess probably around 600 pounds. He was a big big animal. And he actually rose right up and he turned his torso right at me and he looked right at me as he was coming up to me at 35 feet. I got a perfect view of him and so that's my two Bigfoot stories right there. 

 The first one I saw when I was 14 years old when I was deer hunting up in Northern Michigan and I was bale to watch him for about 45 minutes with binoculars. The bigfoot that I saw when I as young at 14, he was actually on the other side of the river, Thunder Bay river is right there and Thunder Bay river was between me and him. Now, I spent an awful amount of time in the woods when I was younger and I could track just about any animal there was. I used to stalk deer and stuff. So I was really good at what I did. 

But I never saw any tracks in the woods that were for a Bigfoot. Now this guy was going back and forth like he was picking something up out where the powerline was, and taking it back in the woods. He went back and forth maybe 15 or 20 times and then all of a sudden, he stopped and he looked directly at me. And then he walked back in the woods and I didn't see him after that again. So he must have sensed that I was there or something. 

That one I saw in Texas was September of this year of the full moon. Like I say, he was 35 feet away from me. As best I could tell, other than his facial features which he had a little bit of black on his face, sort of like a monkey, the rest of his body, from what I could see was all white. His eyes did not appear to be orangish or reddish like an albino normally would, they were greenish in the light. It was definitely a Bigfoot, there was no question about that. I guess he must have been eating a deer or something on the shoulder of the road because he didn't seem to be fazed when I went by him. I looked back in my mirror and he was still there.”